COVID-19 Webinar
Location: Zoom Streaming Only
NOTE: This is a live event. This webinar will not be recorded or made available for future viewing due to the nature of data being presented.
View Speaker Bios (in presentation order)
Keynote Speakers:
“Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science”
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, FASTMH, FAAP
Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
Professor, Pediatrics and Molecular & Virology and Microbiology
Co-Head, Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine
Health Policy Scholar
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics
Co-Director, Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
University Professor, Department of Biology
Baylor University
“COVID-19 and Children: Current Knowledge and CDC’s Response”
Anne Kimball, MD, MPH
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer
Centers for Disease Control
Pediatric Hospitalist
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Egleston
Internal Speakers:
“3 Months of COVID Craziness: Efforts to Determine the Epidemiology, Immune Response, Treatment, and Test a Vaccine”
Evan J. Anderson, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine
Investigator in the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit (VTEU)
Emory University School of Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
“SARS-CoV-2: Both a Beauty and a Beast”
Stefan G. Sarafianos, PhD
Professor and Associate Director
Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology
Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
“Human Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection”
Mehul Suthar, PhD
Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics
Emory Vaccine Center
Emory University School of Medicine