Events
Vaccinology in the Tropics Conference: Vaccines in a Globalized World
- Category:
- CONFERENCE
- Date:
- March 14 -17, 2012
- Location:
- Intercontinental Playa Bonita Hotel, Panama
- Link:
- more information
- Abstract:
To get to the conference website, use the link above and then select "March 2012" from the "Start Month" drop down box.
The overarching goal of the present proposal is to conduct a global vaccine conference where the importance of vaccine research in tropical countries is highlighted, especially the importance of Panama in global vaccine research. During the last decade, vaccine research in tropical countries in Asia, Australia, Africa and Latin America has incremented and created an impact on global disease epidemiology. More recently, the research and development of vaccines such as HPV, Rotavirus and influenza, among others, in tropical countries have created innovations in public health including the implementation of these vaccines into national immunization programs for the first time in history before developed nations. From a public health perspective, this innovation caused real equity in access to health delivery among children in developing countries. From a scientific standpoint, smaller countries, such as Panama, Philippines, Costa Rica, and Israel, to name a few, have stepped into a leadership position to influence vaccine development in the world. The conference will follow strict scientific processes to develop academic content. The conference is research and academia driven. The conference builds-on a previous Vaccinology in the Tropics conference conducted in Panama in 2006, with 350 regional participants. The new conference pretends to increment the international representation and reach of the conference.
For more information contact:
Panama
Aracely Quintero
USF Health International Foundation City of Knowledge, Panama.
Telephone (507) 317-1822
Email: aquinter@health.usf.edu
United States
Stephine Maker
USF Health Continuing Professional Development
Telephone (813) 974-4296
Email: smaker@health.usf.edu