Description
Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe.

Featuring keynotes from Michael Ryan, Deputy Director of the World Health Organization's Emergency Response Programme and Nicole Lurie, Strategic Advisor to the CEO of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation) and former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at HHS, the symposium on "Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World" brought together expert panelists to discuss the development of an Ebola vaccine and to address vaccine rumors and misinformation.

Keynote Address
Michael Ryan, Deputy Director, WHO Emergency Response Programme

Panel 1: Case Study on the Ebola Vaccine
Lydia Ogden, Vice President, Global Enterprise Policy, Merck and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology and Assistant Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD), Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

John T. Monahan, Senior Advisor for Global Health to President John J. DeGioia, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University; and Senior Scholar, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law

Michael T. Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP); Regents Professor; McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Distinguished Teaching Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health; professor, Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering; and adjunct professor, Medical School at the University of Minnesota, and Science Envoy for Health Security, U. S. Department of State

Moderator: Helen Branswell, infectious disease and public health reporter, STAT

For more information, visit our website at https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/details/vaccines-for-outbreaks-in-the-modern-world.