Latest from me: Hopkins Business School to Platform COVID-19 Contrarians at Health Policy Symposium sciencebasedmedicine.org/hopkins-busine…

I was chairing a different session at the time, but I really hope Camila Coelho, PhD, MBA will give me the details of her talk over a drink!

Always a privilege to be quoted along with my very smart colleagues Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl and Tom Peacock, especially in Helen Branswell's typically thoughtful and informed coverage of the recent human H5 case.

Living well with incredible colleagues and friends is the best revenge. Expanding the zoonati one glass of vinho verde at a time…

An outstanding plenary session on influenza with an all-star panel discussion at Elsevier Vaccine #18vaccinecongress: Alyson Kelvin, Ben Cowling, Benoit Callendet Moderna, Afshin Zariri RIVM, led by Art Reingold and Florian Krammer (who also gave a fantastic talk).

NBD just the entire Vaccine Congress noticing that my VIDO U of Saskatchewan colleague and friend Alyson Kelvin is one of Canada’s most exceptional influenza virologists and a world class expert on #OneHealth vaccination strategies during her fantastic invited plenary talk.

The wildlife-human interface in central Lisbon. It’s not just the countryside. (I didn’t touch it for zoonotic infection control reasons)

I hope Gigi Gronvall will make this point tomorrow in the panel on dual use research of concern that I will be co-moderating tomorrow!

Perfection

Had the best time talking about one of my favorite topics! We often say: vaccines don’t save lives, vaccinations do. But in order for a vaccine to turn into a vaccination, we need trust. Not just trust—a trusted message from a trusted messenger. “InfoD” helps bridge that gap.

It was really an honor to co-moderate this incredible panel with Tony Fooks APHA, along with world class experts Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl, Gigi Gronvall, Rik Blejis RIVM , Lijun Shang London Met Uni, and Jonathan Ewbanks from ERINHA. Great discussion, let's keep it going.

I know what I'm doing next September. Especially since I will be joining Florian Krammer and Ivan Hung, MD FRCP (Lon,Edin) as the co-Editor-in-Chief triumvirate of Elsevier Vaccine in 2025. I can't wait to advance & advocate for vaccinology with two such outstanding colleagues in wonderful Kyoto.

It never goes well when he starts talking microbiology