On Thursday, December 14 at 7pm ET, join Harvard Chan School’s Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire (@kizzyphd), creator of the COVID-19 vaccine, on Instagram Live for a conversation on respiratory viruses with @morehouseschoolofmedicine’s … Continue reading “Instagram Live – ‘Tis the Season: a conversation about RSV, Flu, and Covid-19”
Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.
Scientists in Africa have been monitoring and sequencing pathogens since long before the pandemic. The world benefited from this network when scientists including Sikhulile Moyo, laboratory director for the Botswana-Harvard … Continue reading “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022 – Tulio de Oliveira and Sikhulile Moyo”
What will the future of SARS-CoV-2 look like, and what should we as a community consider in our response to changing conditions? Yonatan Grad, Melvin J. and Geraldine Glimcher Associate … Continue reading “As Omicron wanes, what is the state of the pandemic?”
Kizzmekia S. Corbett, PhD, assistant professor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and recently named one of Time magazine’s 2021 Heroes of the Year, speaks with Washington … Continue reading “WP LIVE – Kizzmekia Corbett on the omicron variant and the the future of mRNA vaccines”
December 8, 2021 – As the world waits to learn more about Omicron, the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant, the Botswana-based researcher who produced the first genetic sequence of the virus spoke about the importance of … Continue reading “Botswana researcher who sequenced Omicron urges more genomic surveillance, vaccinations in Africa”
November 3, 2021 – What lessons have scientific researchers learned from the COVID-19 pandemic? And how can they better apply them to the next major outbreak of disease? More than 200 participants … Continue reading “Symposium explores health lessons learned from the pandemic”
