In April 1999, a pandemic planning framework was published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that emphasized the…
On Aug. 26, 1998, the Children’s Vaccine Program was established at WHO’s Program for Appropriate Technology in Health…
On Nov. 11, 1997, the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights was adopted unanimously and…
In 1997, FluNet, a global web-based tool for influenza virological surveillance was launched. It is a critical tool…
On Aug. 20, 1994, the entire Western Hemisphere was certified as “polio-free” by the International Commission for the…
In March 1994, the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunization was created, merging two World Health Organization (WHO)…
On Dec. 10, 1992, the Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus vaccine inactivated (JE-Vax by Research Foundation for Microbial Diseases…
On Dec. 3, 1992, The United Nations (UN) General Assembly proclaimed Dec. 3 as the International Day of…
In 1990, the Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) was formally established by the World Health Organization (WHO), national…
In 1990, the Safe Water System (SWS) was developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
In 1989, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established a World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating…
On Mar. 11, 1988, the World Health Assembly (the ministers of health of all member states of the…
On Feb. 1, 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Global Program on AIDS as the architect…
In Apr. 15, 1985, the first International AIDS conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, was organized by the WHO,…
In 1985, The USDA’s Germplasm Resources Information Network, GRIN, the remnant of the effort that began at the…
In 1985, Rotary International established its PolioPlus program, which held two fundraising events. Rotary has contributed over $500…
In 1983, at the 22nd session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), germplasm becomes a political football…
On Nov. 25, 1981, at the 21st session of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Conference in Rome,…
On May 8, 1980, members of the World Heath Organization (WHO) in Geneva announced that “smallpox had been…
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Assembly certified the world free of naturally-occurring smallpox. Smallpox is an…
In 1977, the International Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) having inherited from the FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit…
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 WHO, in response to poor immunization levels in…
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,…