Dr. Anne Schuchat will
present the lecture Immunization in
the US – the Best or Worst in its Class? Dr. Schuchat, Assistant
Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, will discuss immunization
patterns across the lifespan, vaccine-preventable disease trends, and analysis
of where and why we are failing. She will explore the reasons why pertussis is
acting up, the factors that got HPV vaccine off track, and what UNICEF’s health
equity drive has to do with Houston’s toddlers.
A light lunch will be provided on a
first-come, first-serve basis.
Attendees will be eligible to
enter a drawing to win a Kindle E-Book reader by completing a short interactive
quiz on National Library of Medicine databases such as PubMed.
Visit: http://www.library.tmc.edu/medicalethics/vaccines2012
for a complete list of these lectures.
Visit the following web site to find
helpful links and information on the featured Medical Ethics Lectures: http://libguides.library.tmc.edu/index.php?gid=3401
This project has been funded in part
with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health, under Contract No. HHSN-276-2011-00007-C with the Houston Academy of
Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.
Additional Sponsorship is being
provided by UTHealth McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, and by
Elsevier, New England Journal of Medicine, Science and Ovid, some of the
leading providers of science and health information resources offered by the
TMC Library.
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