Academic and professional activities, 2002 to 2004

Member, Initiative for Vaccine Research Advisory Committee, World Health Organization, Geneva, June 2002-2004.

Senior consultant, Meningitis Vaccine Project, Program for Applied Technology for Health (PATH) and World Health Organization, 1999-2004.

Member, Special Study Section, NIAID and NIH Respiratory Pathogens Contract Review, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, March 2003.

Member, Special Study Section, NIH Review of SBIR and STTR Vaccine Development Applications, Bethesda, Maryland, March 2004.

Invited lectures and symposia, 2002 to 2004
“Meningococcal vaccine: should college students be immunized?” Stanford University Medical Center Grand Rounds, January 25, 2002.

“Meningococcal vaccination of college students?” Children’s Hospital and Medical Center University of Washington Grand Rounds, Seattle, WA, February 14, 2002.

“Novel approaches to development of a meningococcal B vaccine.” Microbial Vaccine Research, Merck & Co., West Point, PA, February 27, 2002.

“Meningococcal vaccination of college students?” Tripler Hospital and University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, March 27-29, 2002.

“New meningococcal vaccines: promising developments.” UCSF Department of Pediatrics “Advances and Controversies in Clinical Pediatrics” course, San Francisco, CA, May 16, 2002.

“Challenges for global eradication of polio.” Children’s Hospital Oakland Grand Rounds, Oakland, CA, July 30, 2002.

“Novel vaccine approach for prevention of Neisseria meningitidis disease.” University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 4, 2002.

“Novel approaches for developing a group B meningococcal vaccine.” Institute of Child Health, University of Bristol Medical School, Bristol, U.K., March 10, 2003

“Predicting protection of new meningococcal vaccines: Lessons from groups A, B and C disease.” Oxford, United Kingdom, February 3, 2004.

“Accelerating immunity to Hib in the first six months of life.” First International CDC/NIH Neonatal Vaccination Workshop, McLean, Virginia, March 2, 2004.

“Developing vaccines for the poorest countries” “Challenges for global eradication of polio” and “Prospects for control of meningococcal disease by immunization.” Hugh Carithes Visiting Professor, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, April 12-13, 2004.

"New meningococcal vaccine targets identified by reverse vaccuology" Symposium lecture, 104 General Meeting of American Society of Microbiolgoy, New Orleans, 2004.