Hot Food, Cool Science - Count Me In!!
Our Mission
The Vaccine Dinner Club (VDC) exists to facilitate networking, dialogue, and collaboration between members of the large and growing community of researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and historians/journalists who are interested in vaccine need, history, policy, discovery, development, testing, deployment, use, and/or evaluation.
The VDC has two missions: To advance the practice of vaccine science by stimulating the intellectual potential and research productivity of the vaccine research community in Georgia and to have a really good time at our monthly meetings.
Who We Are
Our membership includes investigators, students, staff, administrators, and other interesting people from academia (Emory University, Mercer University, the University of Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, and Druid Hills High School), public health (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Carter Center), private industry (the Georgia Research Alliance, GeoVax, Merck), government (federal, state, and local), community based research organizations (Hope Clinic, ARCA), the judiciary (federal and state), the fourth estate (internet, print), charitable foundations (Robert Wood Johnson, Gates), and the general public (including one ukulele player, a guy who works for the FAA, and several contra dancers).Our Sponsors
It may be true that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL) but membership in, and Dinner at, the Club doesn't cost our members a cent. So next time you see them say "Thank You!" to the directors of any of the following sponsoring organizations — The Emory Vaccine Center, the Georgia Research Alliance, the Center for AIDS Research at Emory, and the CDC Chapter of Sigma Xi — for paying for the VDC, so you don't have to.
*The European domestic cow is the official mascot of the VDC in honor of Edward Jenner. The term vaccination comes from the Latin vacca (for cow) and was invented by Dr. Jenner after deriving the first immunization for smallpox from cowpox matter he got from the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes.