Coffee with the Expert

Authors: Enrique Chacon-Cruz, M.D., MSc Felicitas Colombo, MPA Dr. Rajeev Venkayya is a recognized global health leader with deep expertise in vaccines, pandemic preparedness, and biopharmaceutical innovation....

Authors: Enrique Chacon-Cruz, M.D., MSc Felicitas Colombo, MPA Prof. Alejandro Cravioto is a distinguished physician, researcher, and global health leader with decades of experience in medical education,...

Prof. Carol J. Baker is a renowned clinician, researcher, educator, and vaccinologist, internationally recognized for her pioneering contributions to pediatric infectious diseases and vaccine...

Professor Sue Ann Costa Clemens is a leading expert in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vaccinology, and Global Health. She currently serves as Co-founder and Professor...

Dr. Sheldon L. Kaplan is Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he served as Head of the Section...

Professor Robert Steffen is internationally recognized as the "father of travel medicine." He not only coined the term but also initiated the world’s first...

Jerome H. Kim, M.D., serves as the Director General of the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and is an international expert in vaccine development and evaluation. Before joining IVI, Dr. Kim held several prominent positions, including Principal Deputy of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program and Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology and Pathogenesis at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He was also the U.S. Army Program Manager for HIV vaccines and led the Army’s RV144 Phase III HIV vaccine trial, which demonstrated efficacy in preventing HIV-1.

Prof. Steven Black is a pediatric infectious disease specialist with degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MD from the University of California, San Diego. He completed a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco.

Pediatrician and infectious disease specialist Dr. Xavier Saez Llorens serves as the Chief of Infectious Diseases and the Director of Clinical Research at the Dr. José Renán Esquivel Children’s Hospital in Panama. He has been a member of the National Committee of Bioethics in Research (NCBR) for the past 10 years and is recognized as a Distinguished Researcher in the National Research System (SNI, Senacyt) and at the Vaccine Research Center, Cevaxin.

Doctor Ron Dagan is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He is also a founding member of the World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases (WSPID) and a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).