HOUSTON, May 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital is pleased to announce
that today, TIME named Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the
Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Texas
Children's Hospital endowed chair in Tropical Pediatrics and
professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at
Baylor College of Medicine, to the
inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health, a new annual list of 100 individuals
who most influenced global health this year. The full list and
related tributes appear in the May
13, 2024 issue of TIME, available on newsstands on
Friday, May 3, and now
at time.com/time100health.
"I'm grateful for the TIME100 Health 2024 recognition,
particularly for our low-cost vaccines for neglected diseases and
global health, as well as my efforts to counter rising antivaccine
and antiscience activism," said Dr. Hotez.
The list recognizes the impact, innovation, and achievement of
the world's most influential individuals in health.
Dr. Hotez and team members from the Texas Children's Hospital
Center for Vaccine Development and Baylor
College of Medicine are at the forefront of vaccine
development for neglected diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic,
they developed a low-cost, protein-based COVID-19 vaccine
technology that is now locally produced in both India and Indonesia as Corbevax and Indovac
respectively, with millions of doses administered.
Last year, Dr. Hotez received the AAAS Scientific Freedom and
Responsibility Award, for promoting vaccines and combating vaccine
misinformation and the IDSA's Fauci Award Courage in Leadership
Award for his efforts to uphold and speak to scientific truths. He
and additional members from the Texas Children's Hospital Center
for Vaccine Development were awarded the 2023 David and Beatrix
Hamburg Award from the National Academy of Medicine. In 2022, Dr.
Hotez and Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi,
co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital and senior associate
dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, were nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize for their vaccine development efforts. Dr. Hotez
also received the AMA's Scientific Achievement Award. Dr. Hotez is
an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of several books.
Follow @TIME for updates about the list on Twitter and
Instagram and at Facebook.com/TIME.
#TIME100HEALTH
ABOUT TEXAS CHILDREN'S
HOSPITAL
Texas Children's, a nonprofit health care
organization, is committed to creating a healthier future for
children and women throughout the global community by leading in
patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked as
the best children's hospital in Texas and among the top in the nation, Texas
Children's has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise
and breakthroughs in pediatric and women's health. The system
includes the Texas Children's Duncan NRI; the Feigin Tower for
pediatric research; Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, a
comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk
births; Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, a community hospital
in suburban West Houston; Texas
Children's Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to
children's care for communities north of Houston and Texas Children's Hospital North
Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class
pediatric and maternal care to Austin families. The organization also created
Texas Children's Health Plan, the nation's first HMO focused on
children; Texas Children's Pediatrics, the largest pediatric
primary care network in the country; Texas Children's Urgent Care
clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically
for children; and a global health program that is channeling care
to children and women all over the world. Texas Children's Hospital
is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. For more
information, visit www.texaschildrens.org.
ABOUT TEXAS CHILDREN'S
HOSPITAL CENTER FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
Texas Children's
Hospital Center for Vaccine Development is one of the leading
vaccine development centers in the world. Established in
Washington DC as the Sabin Vaccine
Institute Product Development Partnership (PDP) in the year 2000
and after relocating to the Texas Medical Center in 2011, it
rebranded as Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development. For
the past two decades it has acquired an international reputation as
a non-profit PDP, advancing vaccines for poverty-related neglected
tropical diseases (NTDs) and emerging infectious diseases of
pandemic importance. In addition, it builds and strengthens
capacity for vaccine development locally and with foreign nations
and leads global efforts to guide and influence vaccine policy and
advocacy through "vaccine diplomacy" as an international bridge for
peace and vaccine development capacity.
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