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2020 NFID Awards Gala: An Inspirational Evening & A Timely Celebration
…Neuzil, MD, MPH presented the 2020 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award to Penny M. Heaton, MD (Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute), the 2020 Maxwell Finland Award for…
An App a Day Helps Keeps Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Away
…health information. It features a pediatrician locator search tool, an ‘Ask the Pediatrician’ forum for questions, links to Healthy Children Magazine, HealthyChildren.org newsletters, and videos, articles, and resources covering a…
2023 NFID News Conference: Panelist Bios
…field of infectious disease research and has authored or co-authored more than 400 published studies, reviews, and book chapters on infectious diseases. He has served on the editorial board of…
Working Towards a Universal Influenza Vaccine
…vaccine. Don’t miss Dr. Palese’s keynote presentation on Universal Flu Vaccines: Promise and Challenges at the 2016 Annual Conference on Vaccine Research scheduled for April 18-20, 2016 in Baltimore, MD….
Hindsight is 2020: Looking Back on What We Learned …
…Home and in the Community (March 25, 2020 Webinar) Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Aging Research and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, this webinar addresses the impact…
Keep Up The Rates To Help #PreventPneumo
…to be hospitalized with pneumonia when compared to younger people. Communities of color are also at higher risk of complications from pneumococcal disease. Research has also shown that Black males…
Julie Morita, MD
…programming, policy, research and communications activities, advancing the mission of health equity by eliminating barriers to health, including structural racism. Prior to RWJF, she helped lead the Chicago Department of…
US Health Officials Urge Influenza and Pneumococcal Disease Vaccination
…the influenza viruses that research suggests will be most common during the 2019-2020 season. For the 2019-2020 season, CDC recommends the use of any licensed, age-appropriate flu vaccine as soon…
Ricky’s Story (C. diff)
…diff. When my mother heard that I had been diagnosed with C. diff, she immediately went searching through my grandmother’s medical records. Sure enough, my grandmother had been suffering from…