Webinars

Webinar #22: The Third Year of COVID

        

• Megan Ranney, Brown University (Moderator)
• Jennifer Nuzzo, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
• Larry Corey, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
• Roy Gulick, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Georges Benjamin, APHA

Webinar #21: The Fourth Wave

    

• Esther Krofah (Moderator), FasterCures and the Milken Institute Center for Public Health
• George Rutherford, University of California, San Francisco
• Charlene Wong, Duke University School of Medicine
• Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine
• Mitchell Katz, NYC Health + Hospitals

Webinar #20: A Tale of Two Pandemics

        

• Helene Gayle (Moderator), The Chicago Community Trust
• Beatriz Grinsztejn, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
• Gagandeep 'Cherry' Kang, Christian Medical College
• Salim Abdool Karim, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and Columbia University
• William Foege, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Webinar #19: Learning to Live With COVID-19

        

• Aaron Carroll, Indiana University School of Medicine (Moderator)
• Walter Orenstein, Emory-UGA Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance and Emory University School of Medicine
• Joneigh S. Khaldun, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
• Joseph J. Fins, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Kate Gallego, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona

Webinar #18: COVID-19 Conversations — Variants and Vaccines

      

• Carlos del Rio, Emory University (Moderator)
• Angela Rasmussen, VIDO-InterVac, University of Saskatchewan; Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University
• David D. Ho, Columbia University
• Monica Gandhi, University of California, San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital

Webinar #17: A New Year of COVID — The State of the Pandemic & U.S. Strategy in 2021

      

• Georges Benjamin, Executive Director, APHA (Moderator)
• Rochelle Walensky, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair, COVID-19 Equity Task Force
• Andy Slavitt, White House Senior Advisor on COVID-19 Response

Webinar #16: Vaccines — Realities of the Next Steps

    

• Jewel Mullen (Moderator), Associate Dean for Health Equity, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
• Paul Offit, Director, Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Julie Swann, Department Head, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, NC State University
• Noel Brewer, Professor, Department of Health Behavior, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
• Katie Greene, Visiting Policy Associate, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Webinar #15: Vaccine Update — Development, Approval, Allocation and Distribution in the U.S.

     

• Peggy Hamburg (Moderator) — Former FDA Commissioner
• James Hildreth — President and CEO, Meharry Medical College
• Larry Corey — President and Director, Fred Hutch
• Marion Gruber — Director, Office of Vaccine Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. FDA
• Jay Butler — Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases, CDC

Webinar #14: Until We Have a Vaccine — Surveillance, Testing and Contact Tracing

    

• Karen DeSalvo (Moderator) — Chief Health Officer, Google
• Martin Burke — May and Ving Lee Professor for Chemical Innovation, University of Illinois
• LaQuandra Nesbitt — Director, District of Columbia Department of Health
• Michael Osterholm — Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota

Webinar #13: Reopening K-12 Education — Using Science to Keep Children, Teachers and Staff Safe

   

• Wendy Armstrong, MD, Emory University (Moderator)
• Caitlin Rivers, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security
• Donna Mazyck, MS, RN, NASN, CAE, FNASN, National Association of School Nurses
• Dorte Lange, Danish Union of Teachers

Webinar #12: Managing Ongoing Surges — Lessons from the Front Lines

   

• Rochelle Walensky, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (Moderator)
• Jonathan Lewin, Emory University and Emory Healthcare
• Greg Adams, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Hospitals
• Howard Zucker, New York State Health Commissioner

Webinar #11: Reopening Colleges and Universities During COVID-19 — Keeping Students and Communities Healthy

    

• Crystal Watson, DrPH, MPH (Moderator) — Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• Robert Robbins, MD — President, University of Arizona
• Aminta Breaux, PhD — President, Bowie State University
• Julio Frenk, MD, PhD — President, University of Miami
• Eloy Ortiz Oakley, MBA — Chancellor, California Community Colleges

Webinar #10: Learning to Treat COVID-19 — Clinical Trials and Developing Therapeutics During a Pandemic

   

• Carlos del Rio, MD (Moderator) — Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine; Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory Rollins School of Public Health; Executive Associate Dean, Emory at Grady; Co-Director, Emory Center for AIDS Research
• Judith Currier, MD — Professor of Medicine, UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Division Chief, Infectious Diseases Associate Director, UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center
• Rajesh Gandhi, MD — Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of HIV Clinical Services and Education, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Myron Cohen, MD — University of North Carolina Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, and Director of the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases

Webinar #9: The Road to Immunity During COVID-19 —  Developing and Distributing a Vaccine

    

• Paul A. Offit, MD (Moderator) — Director, Vaccine Education Center and attending physician, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• John R. Mascola, MD — Director, Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, FIDSA — Myron M. Levine, MD Professor in Vaccinology and Director, Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Richard J. Hatchett, MD — Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
• Seth Berkley, MD — Chief Executive Officer, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance

Webinar #8: Summer of COVID-19 — Mitigating Direct and Indirect Impacts in the Coming Months

     

• Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, (Moderator), Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Initiatives consultant, former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Kent Smetters, PhD, Boettner Chair Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Faculty Director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model
• Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Craig Fugate, former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration and former director of the Florida Emergency Management Division
• Linda DeGutis, DrPH, MSN, Adjunct Professor, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Lecturer, Yale School of Medicine

Webinar #7: Toward the 'New Normal' — Protecting Public Health as America Reopens

     

• Scott Gottlieb, MD, (Moderator) — Former FDA Commissioner 
• Heidi Larson, PhD, MA — Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• David Michaels, PhD, MPH — Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University
• Mary Bassett, MD — François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health
• Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil — Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Director and Chair, Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington

Webinar #6: COVID-19 and Health Equity — Exploring Disparities and Long-Term Health Impacts

   

• Debra Pérez, PhD, (Moderator) — Senior Vice President, Organizational Culture, Inclusion & Equity, Simmons University
• Sandra Quinn, PhD — Senior Associate Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity
• Jeanette Kowalik, PhD, MPH — Milwaukee Commissioner of Health
• Umair Shah, MD, MPH — Executive Director, Harris County Public Health

Webinar #5: COVID-19 Testing: Possibilities, Challenges and Ensuring Equity

   

• David Relman, MD (Moderator) — Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
• Ashish Jha, MD, MPH, Director Harvard Global Health Institute, and K. T. Li Professor of Global Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• Jill Taylor, PhD, Director, Wadsworth Center, New York State Public Health Department
• Georges C. Benjamin, MD — Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Webinar #4: Crisis Standards of Care During COVID-19

    

• Lawrence (Larry) O Gostin, JD (Moderator) — Director, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University
• John L. Hick, MD — Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota; Faculty Emergency Physician, Hennepin Healthcare
• Rebekah E. Gee, MD — CEO, LSU Health Care Services Division
• Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Adreas C. Dracopoulos Director and Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Webinar #3: Emerging Evidence on Spread and Treatment

    

• Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, MD (Moderator) — Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine; former FDA commissioner
• Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD — Chair, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• John-Martin Lowe, PhD — Assistant Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Health Security Training and Education and Associate Professor of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• R. Alta Charo, JD — Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Webinar #2: The Science of Social Distancing, Part 2

      

• Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH (Moderator) — Professor of Medicine, Harvard University Medical School
• Anne Schuchat, MD — Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH — Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
• Jason Karlawish, MD — Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
• Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM — Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Webinar #1: The Science of Social Distancing, Part 1

     

• Nancy Messonnier, MD — Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Howard Markel, MD, PhD — George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
• Marc Lipsitch, DPhil — Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• Mitch Stripling — National Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and former assistant commissioner of Agency Preparedness and Response for New York City