Please view the Winter 2011 JHVI Newsletter here (click on image below to open PDF)

Inside you will find information about:

• Vaccine Day 2011 guest speaker Anne Schuchat, MD, with a link to her keynote address
  
• JHSPH International Health 50th Anniversary Departmental Seminars
  
• World Pneumonia Day updates
  
• JHVI Vaccine Internship Experience at WHO applications due January 27, 2012
  
• New JHSPH Research Announcements from JHVI, CIR, and JHMRI
• Selected Faculty Publications

While at the JHVI website, you can also view the JHVI mission, read archived newsletters, read more about vaccine education at JHSPH, and search the Human Vaccine Research Database. 

To be added or removed from the newsletter list, please contact jhvi@jhsph.edu

Thank you and enjoy!

Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative
Vaccine Internship Experience at WHO (VIEW)
Fall 2012 Funded Internships in Geneva

Early notice before winter break:
The Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative internship descriptions are now available on the VIEW website page.

More about the VIEW Scholars Program:
The Vaccine Internship Experience at WHO (VIEW) Scholars Program is funded by the Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative. The objective of the VIEW Scholars Program is to allow JHSPH graduate students to work with mentors in the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO) to gain experience in vaccine research, policy, or programs of global importance.

Specific projects will vary, but might include analytic work or specific assignments that contribute to the development of global immunization policy recommendations, the strengthening of national decision making processes for immunization, vaccine delivery, financing, or safety monitoring, or vaccine preventable disease surveillance.

Three internships will be offered during the 2012-2013 academic year. VIEW Scholars will receive $7,500 to be used for travel, accommodation and expenses while in Geneva.

The VIEW Scholars Program is restricted to full-time master’s and doctoral students in good standing enrolled at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As this internship is intended to complement course work taken at the School of Public Health, all applicants are required to have completed at least one year of coursework by September 2012, including a minimum of three terms of biostatistics and one term of epidemiology.

Applicants must anticipate enrollment as full time students during their internships (the first and second quarters of the 2012-2013 academic year).

JHVI and WHO will arrange internships on vaccine-related topics of global importance that will provide opportunities for students to apply skills acquired at JHSPH. However, it is essential that WHO has the flexibility to adjust internships to respond to critical or emerging public health needs. Following the identification of VIEW Scholars, JHVI and WHO will assign internships based on student interest and experience and WHO programmatic needs.

All applications and recommendations are due Friday January 27, 2012 at 5:00pm.
Contact Amber Bickford Cox with questions acox@jhsph.edu or jhvi@jhsph.edu

View the lecture here.

Vaccine Day 2011

Magic bullets and smoking guns, flying pigs and sitting ducks: What can we learn from the past for the new Decade of Vaccines?

Anne Schuchat, MD (RADM, USPHS)
Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service (USPHS)
Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

For more information about Vaccine Day 2011 and to watch the Vaccine Day 2011 video here.

View the JHVI Quarterly Newsletter for Summer 2011 here.  (click image to open PDF)

Inside you will find information about:

• 2010 and 2011 JHVI VIEW Scholars
• International Health Department 50th Anniversary Vaccine Seminars
  
• Center for Immunization Research 25th Anniversary Event

Please view the JHVI Quarterly Newsletter for Fall 2010 here.  (click image to open PDF)

Inside you will find information about:

• Vaccine Day Friday October 29, 2010 with special keynote speaker Dr. Stanley Plotkin
• The Berman Institute of Bioethics discuss the pertussis vaccine
• Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute update on malaria vaccines
• International Vaccine Access Center news
• JHSPH faculty involved in Human Subject Research Ethics Field Training Guide