Rotary celebrates World Polio Day on 24 October with a Livestream event featuring expert speakers and celebrity performers. Hosted by Time magazine science and technology editor Jeffrey Kluger, the Chicago event also includes a global status update on the fight to end polio and the challenges that remain, as well as information about joining Rotarys historic campaign. The program, being held before a live audience at 18:30 Chicago time (UTC-5), includes a performance from Tessanne Chin, 2013 winner of the TV show The Voice, an introductory message and videotaped performance by reggae star Ziggy Marley, and a speech by Minda Dentler, a polio survivor and Ironman competitor. After the event, Chin will hold a concert in Chicago to benefit the End Polio Now campaign. Other speakers include Dr. James Alexander, senior medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, representatives of Sanofi Pasteur, the largest manufacturer of polio vaccine, Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko, and Rotary Foundation Vice chair Michael McGovern. For more on this and other polio eradication activities, visit endpolionow.org. more at: https://rotary.org/myrotary/en/previewing-world-polio-day-livestream-event
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:40:12 +0000
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