Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science

Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Abstract: While the world still grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, experts already warn of the risk of another novel pathogen creating the next pandemic. Globally, modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict, shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a troubling anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. During this webinar, Peter J. Hotez—an internationally recognized vaccine scientist at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Baker Institute fellow in disease and poverty—will discuss his new book Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science, which  highlights Hotez’s work as a science envoy for the US Department of State during the Obama administration and the role of the Biden administration in soothing fraught international relations while preparing a safer future.

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Co-sponsored by the Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University and The Immunization Partnership