#37 COVID vaccines – effectiveness, safety, ethics and deployment
With Prof Annelies Wilder-Smith & Prof Gagandeep Kang
Professors Kang & Wilder-Smith are both members of WHO advisory committees, including the Immunization Technical Advisory Group and the SAGE Group for COVID vaccines. They bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the issue of vaccines for global epidemics.
Prof Annelies Wilder-Smith
Annelies Wilder-Smith is Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and also serves as Consultant to the WHO where she is the focal point for the SAGE deliberations on COVID-19 vaccines.
Her daughter Annika has researched the attitudes and beliefs that led to a recent measles resurgence in Europe and is currently writing a research paper on public attitudes and beliefs on COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
Prof Gagandeep Kang
Prof. Gagandeep Kang is Professor at Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, and the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore.
Professor Kang conducts inter-disciplinary research on enteric infections and child health. Her team has evaluated vaccines in pre-clinical and clinical phase 1-3 studies for rotavirus and cholera. She is a member of many WHO advisory committees, is the vice-Chair of the Board of Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and chairs the Immunization Technical Advisory Group for the WHO’s South East Asian Region.
