Global Health Symposium | COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Strategy and Implementation

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Join us Feb. 22-26 for the COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Strategy and Implementation: A Virtual Global Health Symposium.

Organized by the Program in Vaccine Education at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the symposium features 25 outstanding speakers who have been intimately involved with aspects of the COVID-19 vaccines. This five-day virtual symposium is presented at the cusp of the world’s transition to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Wilmot James, Associate Director of the Program in Vaccine Education and faculty member for Columbia’s online and in-person Master’s and Certification Programs in Bioethics, co-organized the symposium and will moderate a session on “Ethical and Societal Challenges,” keynoted by Melinda Gates.

For details, agenda and registration, please visit the symposium website.

Additional Speakers

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Sir Jeremy Farrar, BSC, MBBS, PhD

Director, Wellcome Trust

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Tedros Ghebreyesus, MS, PhD

Director-General, World Health Organization

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Melinda Gates

Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

A headshot of the Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Health.

Anthony Fauci, MD

Director, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, National Institute of Health

A headshot of the Director of Operation Warp Speed.

Moncef Slaoui, MS, PhD

Director, Operation Warp Speed

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Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, MSc, PhD

Vice Provost, Global Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania

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Wilmot James, PhD

Lecturer, Bioethics M.S. program; Senior Research Scholar, Columbia ISERP