Harvard Alumni for Global Development (HAGD) will be hosting a virtual webinar on June 22nd, at 12pm ET. In this session, we will hear from Harvard Alumni and experts working on the ground to improve access to diagnostic testing and scaling up Covid-19 vaccination programs to control the pandemic in Africa. We will learn about the ongoing efforts in domestic manufacturing, regional and international partnerships and latest efforts to stimulate demand for vaccines.

All are invited. If interested, please sign up using this registration form and share with others interested in global health & development. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdBQcc3YjIQIUwx4eCm4hnDz-h8jG_oEBIrf4YS1RwMSdiSOA/viewform

Panelist #1: Dr Joe Fitchett is Senior Adviser for Biotechnology at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal. In this role, Joe oversees the strategy to design and scale production of medical countermeasures for epidemics as part of a newly established Dakar biotechnology hub. 

Joe has trained in public health and infectious disease epidemiology (Harvard), clinical medicine (Imperial), and immunology of infectious diseases (LSHTM).

Panelist #2 : Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah is the Team Lead for Country Engagement Technical Assistance of the Saving Lives and Livelihood (SLL) Program of Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC). Africa CDC is the technical arm of the African Union responsible for Health Security for the Continent of Africa.

Dr. Fallah completed his PhD in Immunology at the University of Kentucky, his MPH in Global Health/Infectious Disease Epidemiology, at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. For his work building community-level trust in the Ebola response, Dr. Fallah was named one of the Time Magazine Persons of the Year in 2014.