Leaps.org & Aspen Institute Feature “COVID Vaccines & the Return to Life,” March 11 Webinar with Major Health & Science Experts
The event marks one year since the global declaration of the pandemic
–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Leaps.org:
| WHAT: | COVID Vaccines and the Return to Life: Part 1 – First of four virtual symposiums reviewing the most pressing, timely questions around the COVID-19 vaccines. Featuring leading scientific and medical experts, marking the one-year anniversary of the global declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Topics include: the effect of the new circulating variants on the vaccines, what we know so far about transmission dynamics post- vaccination, the myths of “good” and “bad” vaccines as more alternatives come on board, and more. Public Q&A will follow the expert discussion. |
| WHEN: | Thursday, March 11, 2021 |
| 12:30 – 1:45 pm EST / 9:30 – 10:45 am PST | |
| WHO: | Co-Host: Kira Peikoff, Editor-in-Chief, Leaps.org |
| Monica Gandhi, M.D., MPH, Professor of Medicine and Associate Division Chief (Clinical Operations/ Education) of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital. | |
| Paul Offit, M.D., Director of the Vaccine Education Center, attending physician in infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and advisor to CDC and FDA vaccine committees. | |
| Onyema Ogbuagu, MBBCh, Associate Professor at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist treating COVID-19 patients and leading Yale’s COVID-19 vaccine trials. | |
| Eric Topol, M.D., cardiologist, scientist, professor of molecular medicine, and the director and founder of Scripps Research Translational Institute. | |
| CO-HOSTS: | Aspen Institute Science & Society Program |
| Sabin–Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group | |
| With generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. | |
| REGISTER: | https://leaps.org/covid-vaccines-and-the-return-to-life-part-1/ |
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Contacts
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