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16 Feb 2021 - 17 Feb 2021
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English
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Virtual
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COVID-19 Vaccine Development & Implementation Workshop 2021 - February Edition

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Day 1 - Tuesday, 16 February
Session 1: Update Global Vaccine Situation & Critical Unknowns - 18:10
18:10 CET
Update on Current Vaccine Situation - An Overview
Onyema Ogbuagu, MBBCh, FACP, FIDSA
Yale School of Medicine, Yale Medicine, United States
18:40 CET
Immune Responses in Current Vaccine Roll-out & Clinical Trials - The Impact on Durability and Transmission
Christiane Eberhardt, MD
Center for Vaccinology, University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland
19:05 CET
Vaccine Responses in the Key Populations (Elderly, Immunocompromised including HIV)
Annemarie Wensing, MD, PhD
University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands
Session 2: Vaccine Development - 20:15
20:15 CET
Will SARS Cov-2 Become Resistant to Current Vaccines - Implications for Vaccine Development
Penny Moore, PhD
University of the Witwatersrand / National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
20:35 CET
Post Vaccination Antibody Testing: Its Role for Determining Level and Duration of Immunity
Benjamin Larimer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Associate Scientist, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama Birmingham
20:55 CET
Real World Impact of Vaccine Rollout
Eyal Leshem, MD
Director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Sheba Medical Center
21:15 CET
Determining Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccines - Regulatory Perspective
Kirk Prutzman, PhD
Team Leader/Primary Reviewer in Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), FDA
Day 2 - Wednesday, 17 February
Session 3: What We Know About Protection - 18:05
18:05 CET
Vaccines - What Have We Shown and What Have We Yet to Show?
Larry Corey, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / University of Washington, United States
18:25 CET
How to Assess Protection Against Infection and Transmission After Vaccination?
Jakob Cramer, MD
Head of Clinical Development, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
18:45 CET
Reinfection and Protective Immunity After COVID Infection
David W. Eyre, BM, BCh, DPhil
Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
19:05 CET
Optimizing Diagnostics for Post Vaccination Surveillance
Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, United States
19:25 CET
Adapting Diagnostics to Emerging Viral Variants
Session 4: Vaccine Has Arrived!!! - 20:30
20:30 CET
Optimizing Safety Surveillance for COVID-19 Vaccines
Miriam Sturkenboom, PhD
UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
20:50 CET
Who to Vaccinate First to Get Maximal Public Health Benefit Out of the Vaccinations?
Rebecca Weintraub, MD
Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States
21:10 CET
Combating COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and Disinformation: A Clinician’s Perspective
Bisola O. Ojikutu, MD, MPH, FIDSA
Harvard Medical School, Harvard Center for AIDS Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, United States
21:30 CET
Vaccine Preparedness, Vaccine Hesitancy and Adverse Event Surveillance From a CDC Perspective
Elliot Raizes, MD
CDC, United States
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In Memoriam: Dr. Charles Boucher

We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Charles Boucher, a member of the Organizing Committee of the COVID-19 Vaccine Development & Implementation Workshop 2021 - February Edition, has passed away after a courageous battle with cancer. Read our full memorial >

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The workshop on COVID-19 Vaccine Development & Implementation Workshop 2021 - February Edition was held virtually on 16 - 17 February 2021. Please visit the Enduring Materials tab for related slidesets and videos of our faculty to this workshop.

In December, 2019, a novel coronavirus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV- 2) emerged from China and has caused a pandemic involving virtually every country in the world. With over 80 million confirmed cases and more than 1.8 million deaths as of January 2021, it has caused the largest public health crisis of our time.

The enormity of the health and economic burden caused by the pandemic has prompted global action to accelerate research on a preventative vaccine at a scale never seen before. Partnerships among all relevant stakeholders, including governments, the pharmaceutical and biotech industry, academia, NGOs, and philanthropists has resulted in around 200 vaccine candidates that are currently being evaluated worldwide which increases the chances that one or more of them will succeed.

With only one drug being FDA approved in certain hospitalized patients so far and the very beginning of the vaccine roll-out, we are still in the midst of global health crisis where rigorous monitoring, testing, contact tracing, use of masks, social distancing, quarantine or other lockdown restrictions are necessary.

The attempt to find an effective coronavirus vaccine has led to an unprecedented amount of information becoming available in the public domain, from peer-reviewed scientific studies published in leading medical journals to online pre-prints, press reviews and discussions on social media. Now when the vaccine is available it is crucial to have a focus on the facts, what is known and what is yet to be done. There is a need for a program that would not only expertly review emerging data but also discuss how we define an effective vaccine and how to get maximal public health benefit out of the vaccinations.

We proposed a program on COVID-19 vaccines that will range from pathogenesis, what is known about adaptive immunity after infection, the role of neutralizing antibodies and cellular immunity, the current state of the art of vaccine development, and global preparedness for vaccine roll-out. The workshop aimed to provide a global platform to disseminate the latest scientific and advances in the vaccine field. It stimulated discussion and reinforced the interplay of science, community and policy in delivering an effective vaccine to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

We would like to thank everyone who joined this first virtual workshop on vaccine development and implementation of COVID-19.

- The Organizing Committee -

Topics of Interest
  • Update Global Vaccine Situation & Critical Unknowns
  • Vaccine Development
  • What We Know About Protection
  • Vaccine Has Arrived!!!
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