Work-In-Progress Series: Considerations in Prioritizing Limited COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies

On Monday, January 11, the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University will host the next event in its Work-in-Progress Series. During this event, Professor Marc Lipsitch will present “Considerations in Prioritizing Limited COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies.” This event will take place as a Zoom webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. To register and receive Zoom webinar details, please contact Sam Peisch at speisch@hsph.harvard.edu.

Professor Lipsitch is a Professor of Epidemiology with a primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He has done work on pandemics since the SARS-1 pandemic in 2003. (Read full bio)

Recommended pre-reading for this event:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/a-framework-for-equitable-allocation-of-vaccine-for-the-novel-coronavirus

https://www.who.int/immunization/sage/meetings/2020/october/Session03_Roadmap_Prioritization_Covid-19_vaccine.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/vacc-specific/covid-19.html

COVID-19 Vaccines and Herd Immunity