Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World

This is a past event

Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

Description

Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.

Featuring keynotes from Michael Ryan, Deputy Director of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Response Programme and Nicole Lurie, Strategic Advisor to the CEO of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation) and former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS, the symposium on “Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World” brought together expert panelists to discuss the development of an Ebola vaccine and to address vaccine rumors and misinformation.

This event was free and open to the public.

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Agenda

3:30 – 4:00pm, Registration

4:00 – 4:10pm, Welcome Remarks

4:10 – 4:25pm, Keynote Address

4:25 – 5:25pm, Panel 1: Case Study on the Ebola Vaccine

5:25 – 5:35pm, Break

5:35 – 5:50pm, Keynote Address

5:50pm – 6:50pm, Panel 2: Overcoming Vaccine Rumors and Disinformation

6:50 – 7:00pm, Closing Remarks

This session was sponsored by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI); the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Organized by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), in partnership with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, with support from the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University; the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Common Spaces | the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center at Harvard University; the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture; the Center for the History of Medicine at Countway Library of Medicine; the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University; and the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.