Leaps.org & Aspen Institute Feature COVID Vaccines & the Return to Life, March 11 Webinar with Major Health & Science Experts – Business…

--(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 Childrens 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 Yales 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

SabinAspen 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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