NVIC Vaccine E-NewsletterMay 14, 2009



NVIC's October 2009 Vaccine Conference: It's About
Informed Choices

by Barbara Loe Fisher

As many parents head for the Autism One conference
in Chicago next week to learn how to heal their
children's vaccine-related brain and immune system
dysfunction and worldwide anxiety about the swine flu
lingers, the National Vaccine Information Center
(NVIC) is opening registration for the
Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination

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RegencyHotel in Reston, Virginia near Dulles InternationalAirport and
Washington, D.C. The largest and oldestnon-profit vaccine safety organization
in NorthAmerica, founded in 1982, is sponsoring the event toprovide a public
forum for open discussion aboutvaccine issues of concern to parents and health
careprofessionals. The conference theme "Show Us theScience & Give Us A Choice"
reflects NVIC's threedecade pro- education and pro-informed consentstand
defending the right of citizens to make fullyinformed, voluntary vaccine
decisions for themselvesand their children.More than 35 speakers from the U.S.
andtraveling from Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan,and Kenya will speak
about the science, policy, lawand economics of vaccination; the human right
toinformed consent to vaccination; as well as holistichealth care options for
preventing illness and stayingwell. Pre-conference state organizing sessions
startThursday evening, Oct. 1, and Friday and Sundayadvocacy training, holistic
health education andvaccine injury family networking sessions precede
apost-conference Monday, Oct. 5 bus trip to CapitolHill.Friday, Oct. 2
Highlights: Peggy O'Mara, founder &editor of Mothering Magazine and Jane Bryant,
founder& editor of the UK internet news service, One Click,start the first day
with a discussion about freedom ofthe press. The keynote address will be
delivered byrenowned bioethicist George Annas, JD, MPH, Chairof the Department
of Health Law, Bioethics & HumanRights at Boston University School of Public
Health.HPV vaccine researcher Professor Diane Harper, MD,MPH of the University
of Missouri, Kansas City Schoolof Medicine, will examine informed consent
issuesinvolving Gardasil vaccine. Evidence for influenzavaccine efficacy will be
reviewed by Italianepidemiologist and physician Tom Jefferson, MD,Cochrane
Vaccines Field Coordinator.Coming all the way from Kenya is cell biologistand
vaccine researcher Bonnie Dunbar, PhD, who co-founded the Africa Biomedical
Center, to inform theaudience about the multi-disciplinary approach tomeeting
unique health challenges in Africa. She isjoined by Canadian pediatrician Colin
Forbes, MD,who will recount his more than 40 years of experiencecaring for
children in Kenya and how he helped reducechild mortality in some of the most
impoverished childpopulations in the world.Returning briefly from a health
research positionin Japan, MIT doctoral candidate Peter Doshi willoutline the
impact on democracy of U.S. and globalvaccine policies. Human rights activist
Shiv Chopra,B.V.Sc., M.Sc., PhD, who was former scientific advisorto Health
Canada, and is author of "Rotten to the Core"will give a presentation entitled
"Public Health orCorporate Interests?"During what promises to be an
historicconference, pediatrician Bob Sears, M.D. offers analternative schedule
for use of 16 U.S. governmentrecommended vaccines and will debate
pediatricianLawrence Palevsky, M.D., who presents an alternativeview of how to
maintain health and prevent chronicillness. Holistic health pioneers Joe
Mercola, DO andGary Null, PhD will talk about how good nutrition
andunderstanding how to make healthy life choices is thekey to staying well,
while holistic veterinarian andimmunologist, Richard Pitcairn, DVM, PhD, will
teachthe audience about how good nutrition andhomeopathy can keep pets well and
Life UniversityProfessor Matthew McCoy, DC, MPH will give achiropractic
perspective on informed consent tovaccination."Will the Law Protect Health
Freedom?" is thequestion that constitutional and federal law experts,along with
leading medical privacy and health freedomadvocates will discuss. Vaccine injury
and productliability law will be the topic explored by attorneys, whohave won
vaccine injury cases in the federal VaccineInjury Compensation Program, and also
haveexpertise in vaccine contamination and use ofexperimental vaccines in
soldiers. Longtime vaccinechoice lobbyists like PROVE President DawnRichardson
will join longtime autism activists M.I.N.D.Institute co-founder Rick Rollens
and UnlockingAutism President Shelley Reynolds and others to helpparents
organize to educate legislators and protect theright to make informed vaccine
choices.During the past few years, there have been callsfor elimination or
severe restrictions of vaccineexemptions by doctors with ties to the vaccine
industryand by government health officials seeking a 100percent vaccination rate
with all governmentrecommended and mandated vaccines. NVIC haslong taken a
public stand for the basic human right toprotect bodily integrity and the
October conferenceprovides a public forum not only for those, who wantthe
freedom to make voluntary choices about usingpharmaceutical products and medical
interventionsthat carry known and unknown risks, but also forscientists,
doctors, journalists and health safetyadvocates to present information and
defend theirright and responsibility to investigate and speak aboutimproving
vaccine science and policies to protectindividual and public health.The
conference is supported by an educationalgrant from the Albert and Claire
Dwoskin FamilyFoundation, which has made it possible for NVIC tokeep the
registration fee for those registering byAugust 30 at $195 for the three day,
three nightconference featuring top speakers from around theworld. There is a
low $95 per night hotel rate, which isunheard of in the Washington, D.C. area
for a finehotel like the Hyatt Regency. Meeting and hotel roomspace is limited
in the only hotel in the village ofReston. Conference registration and hotel
roomreservation is on a first come, first serve basis. Formore information about
speakers, sponsorshipopportunities and registration, go to
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