Luciana Borio, D.A. Henderson and Lewis Schrager Photo by Will Kirk / HIPS

Lewis Schrager, instructor of the Vaccine Development course offered during intersession at Homewood, wanted to provide undergraduates with an overview of the field. Acting deputy director of the FDA's Division of Vaccines and Related Product Applications (and a 1977 graduate of the School of Arts and Sciences), he designed the course to be accessible to a broad range of students, including those with little or no scientific background. Topics covered included the history of vaccines, an overview of immunology (taught by 1977 alum Michael Lenardo, an immunology researcher at the NIH), types of vaccines, regulation of vaccines and the status of vaccine development for HIV and pandemic influenza. D.A. Henderson, former dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the leader of the successful global effort to eradicate smallpox, capped the course with discussions of the smallpox and poliovirus eradication efforts. Henderson was joined in the classroom by Luciana Borio, a colleague at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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