This presentation will provide a focus on the current challenges facing global polio eradication efforts to reach the final 0.1% of polio cases.

In 1988, the World Health Assembly adopted a resolution for worldwide polio eradication. Since that time, the global incidence of polio has decreased by 99.9% with an estimated 20 million paralytic cases prevented and 1.5 million lives saved.

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Speaker

John Paul Bigouette, PhD is an Epidemiologist in the Polio Outbreak Unit, Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bigouette is a public health professional with interdisciplinary expertise that includes athletic training studies, global environmental health research, and epidemiology. After his graduation from OSU in 2020 he earned a highly competitive two-year applied epidemiology fellowship with the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bigouette earned a BS in Athletic Training from Sacred Heart University, an MS in Kinesiology from Indiana University, and an MPH and PhD in Public Health, both with a concentration in Epidemiology, from Oregon State University.