2013 National Security and International Affairs Medal Recipient: Hamid Jafari Tags: 2013 Sammies Back to All Videos Jafari provided innovative leadership and technical expertise for an ambitious initiative that delivered nearly 1 billion doses of the polio vaccine to 172 million young children in India each year between 2008 and 2011, reaching high-risk populations and stamping out the debilitating disease. He is now heading the effort to eradicate polio in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
