Seminar Series: The Second Death Valley for New Vaccines: Chikungunya, Mpox, and Neglected Diseases

Join the M.S. Health and the Public Interest program for a virtual seminar featuring Sam Halabi, JD, on “The Second Death Valley for New Vaccines: Chikungunya, Mpox, and Neglected Diseases.”

Sam Halabi is the director of the Center for Transformational Health Law at The O’Neill Institute and a professor at Georgetown University’s School of Health. He is also an affiliate researcher at its Center for Global Health Science and Security.

Prior to O’Neill, Halabi served as the senior associate vice-president for Health Policy and Ethics at Colorado State University and as a professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is the former Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri, where he earned the Husch Blackwell Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has published five books and more than 80 manuscripts in the fields of data sharing, the development and deployment of vaccines in routine and emergency circumstances, liability and indemnity factors affecting private sector participation in emergency response, the philosophy of medicine, international technology transfer, public health ethics, universal health coverage, and vector-borne disease surveillance.