144 - Closing Plenary Session: 40 years since declaration of the eradication of smallpox: what have we learned?

Speaker(s)

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  Leigh Henderson, MHS, PhD

  Curator
  Target Zero: Smallpox Eradication Program Online Archive
  Baltimore, Maryland

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Jeff Koplan

  Emory University, Georgia

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Walter Orenstein, MD, DSc (Hon)

  Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Pediatrics
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Learning Objectives:

• explain the clinical and epidemiologic presentations of smallpox disease, smallpox epidemics and smallpox control
• discuss the global activities and surveillance activities used in disease eradication
• discuss the smallpox vaccine and diagnostic and therapeutic interventions

Presentations:

• 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT

  A Primer on Smallpox – Clinical Presentation and Disease Epidemiology
  Jeff Koplan – Emory University
• 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT

  Smallpox Eradication - Lessons for Other Eradication and Elimination Efforts
  Walter A. Orenstein, MD, DSc (Hon) – Emory University
• 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT

  Smallpox Eradication: Why it worked
  Leigh A. Henderson, MHS, PhD – Target Zero: Smallpox Eradication Program Online Archive