Webinar: Vaccines – The End of the COVID-19 Pandemic? (27 Nov)

The Irish Global Health Network would like to invite you to the 20th Conversations on COVID-19 Webinar: Vaccines – The End of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Date: 27 November | Time: Friday at 1pm GMT

Speakers:

• Dr. Ellen 't Hoen - Director of Medicine Law and Policy & Founder of Medicines Patent Pool. 
• Achal Prabhala - Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation & Coordinator of AccessIBSA.
• Dr. Aisling McMahon - Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, Maynooth University.
• Isabel Simpson - Executive Director of Médecins sans frontières.

Moderators:

• Dr Kieran Harkin - Co-founder of Access to Medicines Ireland (AMI)
• Hala Ali - Coordinator of ESTHER Alliance for Global Health Partnerships

As health officials remain cautiously optimistic about the possibility of a Covid-19 vaccine as we head towards the end of 2020, several global leaders have begun to establish the foundations for the roll-out of mass vaccination programmes as early as December. 

With the cold chain challenge in LMICs, it seems likely that services across the world will face a number of logistical challenges once vaccines are approved for use. 

In this webinar, we examine the wide range of issues affecting the roll-out of a Covid-19 vaccine in a range of contexts. Speakers will focus on how to accelerate global access of Covid-19 vaccines for vulnerable groups, as well as transparency on vaccine licensing agreements and explore how best to ensure that vaccines distribution will be determined by WHO public health criteria rather than by an ability to pay. 



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