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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History presents:
Video Webinars – Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World

Part 2: Ensuring Vaccine Safety

Rigorous testing before gaining approval is paramount to ensuring the safety of vaccines. Yet this critical step often adds years to the timeline of vaccine development. Part 2 of Vaccines in the Time of COVID-19 will discuss the testing and approval process, with consideration for how safety can be maintained within a shortened development cycle.

Speakers:

Walt Orenstein, Director of the Emory Program on Vaccine Policy and Development 
Paul Offit, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Recording available.