Session Learning Objectives:
1. To report on the rise of pandemic threats and tropical infections due to climate change, urbanization and deforestation.
2. To summarize efforts at our Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development to develop new vaccines for neglected diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
3. To summarize the origins of rising antivaccine sentiments and its recent shifts; to create awareness on approaches to countering antivaccine activities.

Presenter: 
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
Dean for the National School of Triopical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Hotez has nothing to disclose and does not plan on discussing unlabeled/investigational uses of a commercial product.