Vaccinated: The Quest for New Vaccines Yesterday and Today
HEALTH POLICY DISCUSSION
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event

Paul A. Offit, M.D., is a rare medical academic. A pediatrician and a central figure in child vaccination policy, he also has an outstanding record in vaccine research and development (including work on the recently approved Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer). His latest book, Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat Listen to Audio


Download Audio as MP3 the World's Deadliest Diseases (HarperCollins, 2007), brings to life the remarkable career of microbiologist Maurice Hilleman, the peerless Merck researcher who played a key role in bringing a flotilla of life-saving childhood vaccines to market. But Vaccinated is more than a biography. Offit uses Hilleman's experience to bring us the story of vaccines through time and across the globe. At this event, Offit--through his story of Hilleman's career--will share his observations on new vaccine development in today's very different environment, with its threat of liability litigation and government intervention. Responding to Offit will be Cole Werble, a veteran observer of the pharmaceutical industry and the publisher of The RPM Report, which covers health care regulation, policy, and market access.

Agenda
9:45 a.m.
Registration
10:00
Presenter:
Paul A. Offit, M.D., Childrens' Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Discussant:
Cole Werble, The RPM Report
Moderator:
John E. Calfee, AEI
11:30
Adjournment
Event Materials
Vaccinated: The Quest for New Vaccines Yesterday and Today
AEI Participants

 

John E.
Calfee

  • Economist John E. Calfee (1941-2011) studied the pharmaceutical industry and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the economics of tobacco, tort liability, and patents. He previously worked at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics. He had also taught marketing and consumer behavior at the business schools of the University of Maryland at College Park and Boston University. While Mr. Calfee's writings are mostly on pharmaceutical markets and FDA regulation, his academic articles and opinion pieces covered a variety of topics, from patent law and tort liability to advertising and consumer information. His books include Prices, Markets, and the Pharmaceutical Revolution (AEI Press, 2000) and Biotechnology and the Patent System (AEI Press, 2007). Mr. Calfee wrote regularly for AEI's Health Policy Outlook series. He testified before Congress and federal agencies on various topics, including alcohol advertising; biodefense vaccine research; international drug prices; and FDA oversight of drug safety.

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