**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS, THE WORLD'S POPULATION IS ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE BYALMOST 2 BILLION WITHIN THE NEXT 30 YEARS AND COULD PEAK AT ALMOST 10.4 BILLION BY THEMID-2080S(1). MODERN AGRICULTURE IS CENTERED AROUND DELIVERING HIGH-VOLUME, NUTRIENT-DENSE, FINANCIALLY ACCESSIBLE FOOD PRODUCTS AROUND THE GLOBE TO AN EVER-GROWINGPOPULATION. LARGE-SCALE COMMODITY SYSTEMS ARE NECESSARY FOR FOOD, FUEL, AND FIBER, BUTNEGATIVE OUTCOMES CAN RESULT FOR HUMANS AND ANIMALS BECAUSE OF CURRENT MANAGEMENTPRACTICES, EXPOSURE TO RESPIRATORY AND CHEMICAL TOXINS, AND MONOCULTURAL CONCENTRATIONSOF PLANTS, ANIMALS, AND PEOPLE. THE CURRENT SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IS INCREASINGAT A STAGGERING RATE, POSING PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES ON A GLOBAL SCALE(2).LARGE-SCALE ANIMAL AND HUMAN MORTALITY, FOOD SHORTAGES, HIGH CONSUMER COSTS OF FOOD,AND SIGNIFICANT AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC DEFICITS ARE EVER-PRESENT POSSIBILITIES IN INTENSIVEAGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS.SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY STARTS WITH A FOUNDATION OF HEALTHYANIMALS FREE OF DISEASE, WHICH CAN MINIMIZE THE ZOONOTIC TRANSFER OF DISEASE TO HUMANSAND ENSURE AN ABUNDANT, NUTRIENT-DENSE FOOD SUPPLY TO SUPPORT HEALTHY IMMUNESYSTEMS AROUND THE GLOBE. THE NANOVAX RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (I.E., NANOVAX 2024)WILL BRING TOGETHER EXPERTS FROM ALL CORNERS OF VACCINE AND THERAPEUTIC RESEARCHWITH THE GOAL OF DEVELOPING AND COMMERCIALIZING NANOPARTICLE-BASED VACCINESAND THERAPEUTICS AS EFFECTIVE COUNTERMEASURES TO EMERGENT DISEASES TO ENABLE ARESILIENT ANIMAL-HUMAN SYSTEM CONNECTED THROUGH A GLOBAL AGRICULTURE ECONOMY.BY BRINGING HUMAN AND ANIMAL HEALTH TOGETHER, WE WILL ENABLE TRANSFERABLE KNOWLEDGEAND A COLLECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DISEASE SPREADS AND HOW IT CAN BE MANAGEDWITHIN HUMANS AND ANIMALS THROUGH A SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS LENS.(1) NATIONS, UNITED. 2022. GLOBAL ISSUES. UNITED NATIONS. 2022.HTTP://WWW.UN.ORG/EN/GLOBAL-ISSUES/. ACCESSED 11 DEC 2023.(2)ROHR, JASON R., CHRISTOPHER B. BARRETT, DAVID J. CIVITELLO, MEGGAN E. CRAFT, BRYANDELIUS, GIULIO A. DELEO, PETER J. HUDSON, NICOLAS JOUANARD, KARENA H. NGUYEN,RICHARD S. OSTFELD, JUSTIN V. REMAIS, GILLES RIVEAU, SUSANNE H. SOKOLOW, DAVIDTILMAN. 2019. EMERGING HUMAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE LINKS TO GLOBAL FOODPRODUCTION. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 2 (6): 445-56.HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1038/S41893-019-0293-3