tech2 News StaffJul 30, 2020 11:05:47 IST<\/p>\n
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)has planned to hostan online, multi-country symposium on 'Novel Ideas in Science and Ethics of Vaccines Against Covid-19 Pandemic' on 30 July.<\/p>\n
The web symposium willsee leading medical experts and scientists as speakersandpanellists on different themes in the science and ethics around a vaccine for the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
The event would be conducted from 4.30 pm to 6.45 pm today, and livestreamed on ICMR's website.<\/p>\n
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The first session byDr Anthony S Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USAis a talkon'Confronting the pandemic'.<\/p>\n
This will be followed by remarks from experts on 'Timely & Safe Towards a Covid-19 vaccine - Role of vaccines in ending epidemics'.<\/p>\n
Two panel discussions on 'Novel Ideas in Vaccine Development, rollout, and adopting emerging evidence in pandemic situations', and 'Ethics of different development approaches, equity of participation in development & community engagement'areexpected to follow,where many world-leading expertsare expected to share their views.<\/p>\n
The 25+ speakersat thesymposium includeProf (Dr) Balram Bhargava, Director General of ICMR; Prof Nir Eyal, Director, Center for Population-level Bioethics (CPLB) at Rutgers School of Public Health; Prof (Dr) Randeep Guleria, Director of AIIMS, New Delhi; Prof Adrian Hill, Director, Jenner Institute & Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford;Prof Adam Kamradt-Scott, Director, Global Health Security Network;Prof Gagandeep Kang, Director, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute;Prof Heidi Larson, Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) and Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, among several others.<\/p>\n
Findthe detailed agenda for the symposiumhere.<\/p>\n
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