COVID-19 Conversations Webinar Series

COVID-19 Vaccine Update: Development, Approval, Allocation and Distribution in the U.S.

 

November 18, 2020 | 5 – 6:30 p.m. ET

Register to attend the free webinar

The 15th COVID-19 Conversations webinar will discuss the path to a COVID-19 vaccine, including steps forward in development, approval, allocation and distribution.

The webinar will begin with an introduction from the session's moderator, Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA commissioner, and then feature a conversation with a panel of experts, including:

• Larry Corey, President and Director Emeritus, Fred Hutch

• James Hildreth, President & CEO, Meharry Medical College

• Marion Gruber, Director, Office of Vaccines Research & Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

• Jay Butler, Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the webinar audience.

This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education credits for CPH, CME, CNE or CHES. Several days after attending the webinar, participants will receive an email with info on how to complete the online evaluation and claim their credits.

Recordings Now Available for All Previous Webinars

Watch free recordings of our webinars focused on social distancing, emerging evidence, crisis standards of care, testing, health equity, reopening America, mitigating indirect impacts, the road to immunity, clinical trials and therapeutics, reopening colleges and universities, managing ongoing surges, returning to K-12 education, as well as our most recent webinar on Controlling COVID-19: Surveillance, Testing, and Contact Tracing. Transcripts and slide presentations are also available for all webinars in this series.

The "COVID-19 Conversations" series of rapid-response webinars from the National Academy of Medicine and the American Public Health Association is addressing the state of the science on COVID-19 and explore emerging evidence on how to best mitigate its impact.

Led by a panel of expert advisors chaired by Carlos del Rio and Nicole Lurie, the series features trusted experts in such fields as public health, infectious disease, risk communication, and crisis standards of care. The series is providing trustworthy scientific analysis of important developments in the COVID-19 response to inform policymakers, public health practitioners, clinicians, business leaders, and scientists.

All webinars will be recorded and posted on our website.