Global Health Tuesday: Measles Outbreak & Vaccines

The Global Health Institute’s September Global Health Tuesday Webinar took place on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Dr. James Conway, Professor, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Global Pediatrics, and Director, Office of Global Health, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, moderated a timely conversation on Measles Outbreak & Vaccines.

Dr. Conway lead the discussion with panelists Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health; Dr. Jonathan Temte, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; and Dr. William Moss, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Please click here for a recording of the webinar on our YouTube Channel.

MEET THE MODERATOR:

Dr. James Conway is a professor in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Global Pediatrics. He works both domestically and globally with programs designed to improve the lives of children, particularly focused on vaccine development and immunization system strengthening. In addition to his service as a professor, Conway is the director of the Office of Global Health at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), program director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship, and medical director for UW Health Immunization Programs. Conway has an affiliate appointment in the Department of Population Health Sciences.

Conway is involved as an investigator and consultant for numerous vaccine development projects in collaboration with pharmaceutical industry partners. Current active projects include development of COVID-19, pneumococcal, meningococcal, and RSV vaccines. He also has active collaborative projects addressing the causes and solutions to vaccine hesitancy. He received the UW—Madison Dean’s Award for Excellence in Medical Student Research Mentorship in 2021.

You may find more bio information on Dr. Conway here.

MEET THE PANELISTS:

Dr. Nuzzo is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. An epidemiologist by training, her work focuses on global health security, public health preparedness and response, and health systems resilience. Together with colleagues from the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Economist Impact, she co-leads the development of the first-ever Global Health Security Index, which benchmarks 195 countries’ public health and healthcare capacities and capabilities, their commitment to international norms and global health security financing, and socioeconomic, political, and environmental risk environments. She also founded the Outbreak Observatory, which conducts, in partnership with frontline public health practitioners, operational research to improve outbreak preparedness and response. Prior to coming to Brown, Dr. Nuzzo was an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She was also a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

You may find more bio information on Dr. Nuzzo here.

Jonathan Temte, MD, PhD, MS (he/him/his) joined DFMCH as faculty in 1993. He is a professor of family medicine and community health and the Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement for the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Temte received his BA in 1980 from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, an MS in biological oceanography from Oregon State University in 1986, and a PhD in zoology (minor: epidemiology) from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. He is published widely in the area reproductive ecology and birth timing of seals and sea lions. Temte pursued his medical training at the University of Wisconsin medical school and received his MD in 1987. He is a 1993 graduate of the Madison Family Practice Residency.

Dr. Temte is also a member and chair of several groups related to measles, including: Member of the CDC expert panel declaring measles eliminated in the U.S. (March 2000); Member of the CDC expert panel that declared Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS) eliminated in the U.S. (October 2024); Member of the expert panel reaffirming elimination of measles, rubella, and CRS in the U.S. (December 2011); Chair: MMRV Safety Work Group, U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (2008-2009); Chair: MMR Vaccine Work Group, U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (2011-2012); Chair, U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (2012-2015); and Chair, Wisconsin Council on Immunization Practices (2006 – present).

You may find more bio information on Dr. Temte here.

Dr. William Moss is a Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology, International Health and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center, and a Deputy Director at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. He is a pediatrician with subspecialty training in infectious diseases, and has worked in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and India among other countries. His broad research interests are the epidemiology and control of childhood infections in resource-poor countries. The specific focus of his current research is in understanding the impact of the HIV epidemic on measles control and eradication, the epidemiology and control of malaria in southern Africa, the use of serosurveillance to guide immunization programs, and the care and treatment of HIV-infected children in rural Zambia.

You may find more bio information on Dr. Moss here.