Top health figures specializing in vaccine research, health security and medical ethics convened in Cranberry last week to discuss vaccine trends during a time of social and political upheaval surrounding vaccine sentiment.

Key speakers at the 20th annual Allegheny County Immunization Coalition Conference included Peter Salk, son of Jonas Salk, the Pittsburgh-based polio vaccine inventor; Amesh Adalja, senior scholar for health security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health and a Pittsburgh physician; and Todd Wolynn, cofounder of Kids+ Pediatrics, a pediatrician and executive director of the Trusted Messenger Program.

The event drew 163 attendees, many of them nurses and physicians in the area, as well as public health workers and some students. They came from multiple

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