Army Medicine at Work

U.S. Army Col. Nelson Michael, Ret., MD, PhD, Director, U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), talks about the Army's critical work on the RV144 trial in 2009, which showed that a preventive HIV vaccine was possible. Since this episode was recorded, the HVTN702 trial began in South Africa and is the first efficacy trial for an HIV vaccine in seven years.

U.S. Army Col. Stephen Thomas, MD, an infectious disease physician and vaccinologist, explains how the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) identifies emerging threats like Zika and Ebola, and rapidly develops vaccines to combat these threats.