ADVAC

Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines

ALUMNI Meeting : Webinar
Date: 8 December 2021
Time:  15h00 to 17h00 (Geneva/Paris time)
Place: WEBINAR
 
Discussion topic:
Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccine Safety – Perspective from WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety
Presenter: Rita Helfand, Chair, Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, WHO, and Senior Advisor for Science, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

COVID-19 Vaccine Safety – US experience
Presenter: Tom Shimabukuro, Acting Director, Immunization Safety Office, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC
Chair: Melinda Wharton, Associate Director for Vaccine Policy, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Member of the ADVAC Scientific Committee
Documents and links:
pdfThe Immunological benefits of mRNA and potential applications.
Presenter: Barney Graham, former Deputy Director of the NIAID Vaccine ResearchCenter, National Institute of Health, USA
pdfRegulatory approaches: Issues and challenges, and questions to be asked by regulators.
Presenter: Philip Krause, Deputy Director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Food & Drug Administration, USA