Fall 1998 Volume 3, Number 3		Personnel changes in Atlanta and Geneva Mark A. Kane, MD, MPH, now responsible for hepatitis immunization and introduction of new vaccines at WHO, Geneva, will become the Executive Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Childrenšs Vaccine Program in Seattle, Washington. Kane has worked in viral hepatitis control since 1979, first at CDC and then at WHO. In his new position, he will lead an initiative to reduce the time it takes for new vaccines to reach children living in poor countries. The program will focus first on Hib, pneumococcus, rotavirus, and hepatitis B vaccines. The Bill and Melinda Gates Childrenšs Vaccine Program was established on December 2, 1998 by the software executive and his wife with a $100 million gift. Kane and his wife, Saralee, will relocate to Seattle in August. Craig N. Shapiro, MD, a staff epidemiologist since 1987 and Deputy Chief of the Epidemiology Section at the CDC Hepatitis Branch, is moving to China. Shapiro is an international expert on hepatitis A and has been the principal author of CDCšs policies on hepatitis A for many years. In China, he will continue to work for CDC in viral hepatitis epidemiology. His wife, Lisa A. Lee, VMD, MS, MPH, is also a CDC epidemiologist and will be working in Chinašs polio eradication effort. Shapiro, Lee, and their three children leave for China in late January.