A Strategy for Minimizing the Impact of Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases of Military Importance: Vaccine Issues in the U.S. Military

Abstract : In April 1999, at the request of COL Charles Hoke, Jr., Director, Military Infectious Diseases Research Program, and MG John Parker, Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies appointed an expert committee with staff support from the Medical Follow-up Agency. The committee's name reflects USAMRMC's concerns: Committee on a Strategy for Minimizing the Impact of Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases of Military Importance: Vaccine Issues in the U.S. Military. Over the course of the project, the committee will meet approximately five times to gather information-from invited speakers and discussants representing DOD and other Federal agencies, and interested individuals active in academic research, clinical care, and the pharmaceutical and vaccine industry, as well as from peer-reviewed literature and reports. The charge to the committee derives from the work statement and accompanying material in the contract between DOD and IOM.