The final event of the NFID Respiratory Season News Briefing Series took place on December 3, 2025, providing a pulse check on the latest updates for the 2025–2026 respiratory season, with new survey findings, data on vaccine uptake, expert perspectives, and personal stories highlighting:
- Emerging challenges in protecting public health – from trust to access barriers
- What’s at stake for individual families, communities, and the US healthcare system
- The immediate and long-term implications for public health stemming from the complex and evolving respiratory vaccination landscape
A video will be available soon.
Who: NFID Medical Director Robert (Bob) H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, moderated a panel discussion with experts including:
- Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH – Former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2021-2023; Professor, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Advisor, Vaccine Integrity Project
- Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD – Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine; Co-Director, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
- Tom Frieden, MD, MPH – Former Director of CDC, 2009-2017; Founder and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
- Nandini Selvam, PhD, MPH – Vice President and General Manager, IQVIA
Media Contact: NFID@apcoworldwide.com