Conference on The Promise and Potential of Animal Vaccines in Global Health

Date
May 10, 2024, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Guyot Hall, Room 100
Audience
Students, Faculty, Fellows & Staff

Speakers

  • Ramanan Laxminarayan
    Senior Research Scholar, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
  • Simon Levin
    James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  • Bryan Grenfell
    Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
  • Jessica Metcalf
    Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy, Princeton University
  • Justin Sheen
    Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  • Keenan Duggal
    Research Associate, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
  • Chadi Saad-Roy
    Miller Research Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, UC Berkeley
  • Joseph ​Lewnard
    Associate Professor, Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
  • Ermias Kebreab
    Professor and Associate Dean for Global Engagement in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis
  • Felix Lankester
    Director, Rabies Free Tanzania and Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University
  • Abhijin Adiga
    Research Associate Professor, University of Virginia
  • Eric Fevre
    Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool and Jointly Appointed Principal Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute
  • Cecile Viboud
    Staff Scientist, Fogarty Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, National Institutes of Health
  • Martha Nelson
    John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health

Details

Animal vaccines help maintain healthy livestock and poultry populations, improve food safety, and reduce the transmission of zoonotic disease to humans.  However, the extent of routine vaccination among food-producing animals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is low, and considerably lags vaccination rates in high income countries (HICs). Many of the existing gaps in the area of vaccine development and deployment for terrestrial food-producing animals could be hugely aided by better science, changes in policy and increases in funding. Improvement could simultaneously help mitigate climate change and pandemic risk, tackle antimicrobial resistance, and fight poverty. Few global investments could claim to have similarly broad benefits at so modest a cost.  The purpose of this meeting, which includes experts both at Princeton and outside, is to discuss the broader value of animal vaccines beyond the more direct effects on animal welfare and health and to set out a roadmap for how they could be scaled up and used more effectively to improve health and wellbeing worldwide. 

Please register by email to Laura Matecha at [email protected]. Open to Princeton University undergrads, postgrads, faculty, and staff.

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Sponsor
Center for Health and Wellbeing