Under the Global Outreach Initiative, we will

• build relationship with sister societies across the globe;
• ensure virtual access to the ASV conference, including registration scholarships for virtual or in person attendance from people from underrepresented regions of the world increasing the diversity and inclusion of the ASV family.

Under the Advocacy initiative, we will

• partner with ASM advocacy efforts, including participation in Hill Day;
• build an advocacy toolbox focused on virus emergence, vaccines, and pandemics for public education and literacy;
• work with the education committee to develop curriculum guidelines for teaching virology at all levels as part of general biology and microbiology classrooms;
• .continue to support and evolve “Chat with a Virologist” and “Vaccine Townhalls” as one tool to support advocacy efforts.