The Book review: Hotez, Peter J. (2021). Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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https://doi.org/10.5377/rlpc.v4i7.15049

Keywords:

health, vaccines, COVID19, anti-vaccine movement, conflict

Abstract

2022 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Dr. Peter J. Hotez, is one of the world's leading exponents of vaccine development, an advocate of therapies for the management of Neglected Tropical Diseases and a proponent of the concept of diplomacy in relation to vaccine science. Dr. Hotez is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine, professor of pediatrics, molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, co-director of the Texas Center for Vaccine Development for Children, and served as U.S. Science Envoy during President Obama's administration for vaccine diplomacy projects in the Middle East and North Africa. These backgrounds are relevant to understanding the context of writing a book that examines, from an autobiographical perspective, how to deal with the larger challenges of international relations and global conflict in addressing science issues that impact people's health.

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Author Biography

Héctor M. Ramos-Zaldívar, Catholic University of Honduras / Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Founder in 2008 of the Medical Research Group of the Catholic University of Honduras (GIMUNICAH). Performed the first plastination in Central America in 2009 and discovered the Ramos-Martinez Syndrome in 2016. Collaborator as a member CAAPA (Consortium on Asthma among African ancestry Populations in the Americas) in genomic studies of Afrodescendant population related to asthmatic pathology. He has participated in expeditions sponsored by National Geographic in Genetic Ancestry of Indigenous Populations of The Genographic Project 2.0. He is currently studying cerebral lymphatic flow using nanotechnology and has a PhDc from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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Published

2022-11-10

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Ramos-Zaldívar, H. M. . (2022). The Book review: Hotez, Peter J. (2021). Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science. Johns Hopkins University Press . Latin American Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 4(7), 146–149. https://doi.org/10.5377/rlpc.v4i7.15049

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 7 (2023)

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Críticas de libros

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