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Activity Title: COVID-19 Vaccinology: Development, Use and Effect on Public Health
Release Date: January 21, 2021
Estimated Time to Complete Activity: 55 minutes
Statement of Need:
Where are we with delivering safe, effacious COVID-19 vaccines globally? What are the challenges and opportunities? This webinar provides important updates in the currently approved COVID-19 vaccines and an overview of ongoing Phase 3 trials. Attention is paid to the vaccination of special groups such as immunocompromised individuals, children, and pregnant women. Elements required to achieve herd immunity are also discussed.
Faculty:
Neelika Malavige is a Professor and head of the Department of Immunology and Molecular Medicine, the Director of the Centre for Dengue Research, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka and an academic visitor at the MRC Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK.
Shabir A. Madhi is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Wits University. His former positions include Professor of Vaccinology in the School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Director of the world-renowned Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA). Madhi is the National Research Foundation/Department of Science and Innovation SARChI Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases and he is Co-Director of African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE). He chairs the National Advisory Group on Immunization in South Africa. His qualifications include MBBCh (Wits), MMed (Wits), FCPaeds(SA), Ph.D.
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Supported by an Unrestricted Educational Grant from Pfizer Global Medical Grants
Upon completion of this module, participants should be able to:
- Discuss where safe, effacious COVID-19 vaccines are being delivered globally
- Explain the challenges and opportunities for COVID-19 vaccinology
- Describe important updates in the currently approved COVID-19 vaccines and the ongoing Phase 3 trials
- Discuss the elements required to achieve herd immunity.
The target audience for this module is physicians, nurses, public health officials, researchers, immunization officers, and other health professionals.
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Desai AN, Majumder MS. What Is Herd Immunity? JAMA. 2020;324(20):2113. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20895
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772168
Omer SB, Yildirim I, Forman HP. Herd Immunity and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Control. JAMA. 2020;324(20):2095–2096. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.20892
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772167
Kyriakidis, N.C., López-Cortés, A., González, E.V. et al. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines strategies: a comprehensive review of phase 3 candidates. npj Vaccines 6, 28 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-021-00292-w
Hodgson SH, Mansatta K, Mallett G, Harris V, Emary KRW, Pollard AJ. What defines an efficacious COVID-19 vaccine? A review of the challenges assessing the clinical efficacy of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Feb;21(2):e26-e35. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30773-8. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33125914/
Supported by an Unrestricted Educational Grant from Pfizer Global Medical Grants
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Activity Staff Disclosures:
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Faculty Disclosures:
Professor Neelika Malavige
Affiliation/Financial Interest and Name of Commercial Company
Receipt of honoraria or consultation fees: Sun Pharma (India)
Professor Shabir Madhi
Affiliation/Financial Interest and Name of Commercial Company
Grants/Research Support: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, South Africa Medical Research Council, Novavax
Sponsored Speakers Bureau: Cipla, Novartis
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