September 25, 1999

The 18th Annual NFID Golf Tournament* to be held at the Chardonnay Club in Napa, CA, prior to the ICAAC conference in San Francisco, CA. Entry limited to the first 50 applicants.

February 2-4, 2000

International Symposium on Combination Vaccines, presented by the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) and jointly sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization to be held at the Natcher Conference Center on the campus of NIH, located in Bethesda, MD. Call (404) 639-4450 or visit the NVPO web site at http://www.cdc.gov/od/nvpo.

March 5-9, 2000

The 4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections, jointly sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Inc. (SHEA). The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of SHEA at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. Contact Hachero Hill at (301) 530-1619 x16.

April 30-May 2, 2000

The Third Annual Conference on Vaccine Research*, sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the International Society for Vaccines, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute at Georgetown University, and the World Health Organization to be held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel in Washington, DC.

June 3-5, 2000

New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Course*, sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with Emory University School of Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to be held at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Atlanta, GA.

July 5-8, 2000

The 34th National Immunization Conference will be held in Washington, D.C. To obtain information about the conference, contact the CDC National Immunization Program by phone at (404) 639-8225 or by fax at (404) 639-8828. For commercial entities wishing to exhibit in the IIMEX area, please contact NFID by phone at (301) 656-0003 xt 19, by fax at (301) 907-0878, or by e-mail at nfid@aol.com.

*For more information about these events and meetings, please contact, Kip Kantelo, NFID, 4733 Bethesda Ave., Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20814-5228, (301) 656-0003 x 19, fax (301) 907-0878, e-mail: kkantelo@aol.com, or visit our web site at http://www.nfid.org.

The National Coalition for Adult Immunization (NCAI) has produced the National Adult Immunization Awareness Week (NAIAW) Campaign Kit. NAIAW is always the second full week of October, and this year will be observed from October 10-16, 1999. The campaign kit contains materials which provide organizations with resources to help educate consumers and health care workers about adolescent and adult immunization. To order a kit, please contact NCAI at (301) 656-0003 or send a check for $15.00 (postage included) made payable to NCAI to 4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20814-5228.