In 1975, The World Health Assembly passed a resolution to create the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) to…
In 1974, Bioversity International was established as the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) to coordinate an…
In 1974, the Expanded Programme on Immunization was created within World Health Organization (WHO)Â in response to poor…
In 1971, The Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter was one of Bioversity Internationalï¾’s flagship publications. Though no longer published,…
In 1969, The FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit sponsored the first attempt to develop a standardized, computerized data bank…
In 1969, a survey by the FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit reveals that only 28% of the approximately two…
In 1968, The FAO created a Crop Ecology and Genetic Resources Unit to act as a clearinghouse for…
On Sept. 18, 1967, the FAO and the International Biological Programme put on the second major conference on…
In 1967, the Global Smallpox Eradication Program was launched by WHO. During the first year of the program,…
In 1965,tThe bifurcated needle for smallpox vaccine was introduced. In 1961 the bifurcated needle was developed as a…
In 1964, the FAO, backed by the U.N. Special Fund, sets up the Crop Research and Introduction Centre…
In 1961, oral polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Albert Sabin, was licensed for use in the U.S. In…
In 1961, as part of its World Seeds Year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held a Technical…
In 1957, the FAO published its first Plant Introduction Newsletter, a periodical summary of who has what germplasm…
In 1956, the CDC’s Influenza Branch in Atlanta was designated a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for…
Since 1952, global influenza surveillance has been conducted through WHO’s Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS). The…
In 1952, the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS) was created by World Health Organization (WHO) to…
On Apr. 7, 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded in Geneva. WHO is the directing and…
In 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) Influenza Centre was established at the National Institute for Medical Research…
In 1947, an FAO subcommittee recommends that the FAO become a clearinghouse for information and that it facilitate…
In 1927, Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine was first used in newborns, having been developed by Albert Calmette and…
In 1902, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau was established as the first of a series of international health…