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MEDIA ADVISORY: Should states mandate HPV vaccine for public school students? Live video at 6 p.m.
2/4/2008
1:11 pm
A multi-disciplinary panel will take up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. The discussion will focus on the debate over efforts by several states to mandate the inoculation of public school students with Gardasil, which protects against certain types of the human papilloma virus, or HPV. HPV is sexually transmitted and has been identified as a major cause of cervical cancer. The Women Law Students Association is sponsoring the event along with the Lawyers’ Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter. Sponsored by the Hyatt Student Activities Fund, the event is free and open to the public. The panel is moderated by Josh Perry, adjunct professor of law and assistant professor of medical education and administration at Vanderbilt Medical Center, and features: Dr. Todd Callahan, assistant professor of pediatrics and adolescent medicine specialist at Vanderbilt; Jessica Farrar, a Texas state representative who authored legislation to enact an HPV vaccine requirement for Texas girls entering the sixth grade; Linda MacDonald Glenn, a faculty member at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical Center; Dwayne Hastings, vice president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; and Hedy Weinberg, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. WHAT: Panel discussion on HPV vaccine in public schools.
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. WHERE: Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School Media Contact: Jennifer Johnston (615) 322-2706 jennifer.johnston@vanderbilt.edu |
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