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Houston, TX – October 11, 2022 – Two innovative Houstonians with Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine received the Mayor’s 2022 Hispanic Heritage Award successful healthcare today. Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and prof and subordinate dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine astatine Baylor College of Medicine, and Dr. Flor Muñoz, manager of transplant infectious diseases astatine Texas Children's Hospital and an subordinate prof of pediatrics – infectious diseases astatine Baylor College of Medicine, officially received the grant jointly during a proclamation ceremonial contiguous astatine City Hall.
Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board provides this and different awards to grant exceptional Houstonians during Hispanic Heritage Month, seeking to admit exemplary Hispanics who person made outstanding contributions toward improving the prime of beingness wrong the Houston Hispanic community.
Dr. Bottazzi was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize this twelvemonth alongside her workfellow of implicit 20 years, Dr. Peter Hotez, for important contributions to planetary vaccine equality. They were besides named 2 of Fast Company’s 2022 Most Creative People successful Business. With their team, they researched and developed a patent-free, low-cost recombinant macromolecule COVID-19 vaccine that has received exigency usage authorization successful respective parts of the world. Dr. Bottazzi has led galore assemblage events to amended Latinos astir COVID-19 vaccine improvement and served connected section and nationalist task forces. Dr. Bottazzi was precocious named 1 of Forbes and Bloomberg’s astir influential radical successful Central and Latin America, respectively, and was a panelist astatine the Clinton Global Initiative yearly gathering wherever she discussed planetary vaccine equality.
I americium honored and humbled to receive, jointly with Dr. Muñoz, this grant and observe our Central American heritage. Together we are utilizing innovative strategies successful the vaccine sciences with the extremity to scope millions of children globally and adjacent the wellness inequity gaps making this satellite much prosperous,” said Dr. Bottazzi.
Dr. Muñoz and her squad led attraction and COVID-19 vaccine trials successful Houston astatine Texas Children’s Hospital for steadfast children nether the property of 12 and immunocompromised children. She conducted a NIH sponsored survey connected COVID-19 vaccines successful gestation to measure their extortion successful mothers and infants. Dr. Muñoz has been a steadfast advocator for pediatric patients and large women astatine Texas Children’s Hospital, ensuring adjacent entree to life-saving therapeutic treatments. During the pandemic, Dr. Muñoz continually participated successful assorted nationalist and section events and activities to amended the Houston assemblage astir the value of getting vaccinated, methods to enactment harmless and recruitment for captious vaccine trials. Additionally, Dr. Muñoz served successful assorted nationalist and planetary committees and section task forces successful effect to the COVID-19 pandemic. She is co-chair of the COVAX-CEPI Maternal Immunization Group and of the Global Vaccine Development Network maternal vaccine information moving group, and seat of the Institutional Review Board astatine Baylor College of Medicine.
“It is simply a existent grant to person the Mayor's Hispanic Heritage Award for Healthcare on with Dr. Bottazzi. I americium humbled to stock this designation with each those moving successful healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic and arrogant of our Hispanic assemblage successful Houston. I americium grateful for Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine's enactment for our efforts successful ensuring and improving the wellness of children, their mothers, and their families present astatine location and worldwide,” said Dr. Muñoz.
ABOUT TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Texas Children’s Hospital, a not-for-profit wellness attraction organization, is committed to creating a healthier aboriginal for children and women passim the planetary assemblage by starring successful diligent care, acquisition and research. Consistently ranked arsenic the champion children’s infirmary successful Texas, and among the apical successful the nation, Texas Children’s has garnered wide designation for its expertise and breakthroughs successful pediatric and women’s health. The infirmary includes the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; the Feigin Tower for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a broad obstetrics/gynecology installation focusing connected high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a assemblage infirmary successful suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the archetypal infirmary devoted to children’s attraction for communities northbound of Houston. The enactment besides created Texas Children’s HealthPlan, the nation’s archetypal HMO for children; has the largest pediatric superior attraction web successful the country, Texas Children’s Pediatrics; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics that specialize successful after-hours attraction tailored specifically for children; and a planetary wellness programme that’s channeling attraction to children and women each implicit the world. Texas Children’s Global Health programme leads efforts that beforehand wellness attraction equity done innovative collaboration successful care, acquisition and probe for underserved populations globally. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. For much information, spell towww.texaschildrens.org. Get the latest quality by visiting the online newsroom and Twitter astatine twitter.com/texaschildrens.
ABOUT TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CENTER FOR VACCINE DEVELOPMENT
Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development is 1 of the starring vaccine improvement centers successful the world. Established successful Washington DC arsenic the Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (PDP) successful the twelvemonth 2000 and aft relocating to the Texas Medical Center successful 2011, it rebranded arsenic Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development. For the past 2 decades it has acquired an planetary estimation arsenic a non-profit PDP, advancing vaccines for poverty-related neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and emerging infectious diseases of pandemic importance. In addition, it builds and strengthens capableness for vaccine improvement locally and with overseas nations and leads planetary efforts to usher and power vaccine argumentation and advocacy done “vaccine diplomacy” arsenic an planetary span for bid and vaccine improvement capacity.
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