This Sunday at 11:00 we will hear from Dr. Rebecca Prevots, Ph.D., who is the Chief of the Epidemiology Unit at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Prevot will tell us a bit about her career and then we will move on to a deep dive into the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, where things stand now and likely paths moving forward. Among other items, we will discuss the Russian vaccine, what's up with an Israeli vaccine?? and the likely timeline on the most promising vaccines today. At the end of our initial discussion, Dr. Prevots will take questions from the community.

Dr. Prevots began her public health research career at the New York City Department of Health working as a public health advisor in the AIDS surveillance and epidemiology unit. After earning a Ph.D. in epidemiology in 1991, she joined the CDC where she worked on the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases, as well as HIV/AIDS. She moved to the NIH in 2003 and several years later became chief of the newly created epidemiology section at the NIH Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases working on studies of nontuberculous mycobacteria and studies related to other infectious diseases.

If you need to sneeze or cough during this event, we highly recommend you do so into a handkerchief or into your elbow.