The NAM held a two-part report release webinar on Thursday, November 18, 2021, from 8:00 am — 10:00 am ET (Session 1) and from 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm ET (Session 2) to discuss findings and recommendations from four reports on Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Vaccine Preparedness and Response: Harnessing Lessons from the Efforts to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The four reports assess the global impact that capabilities, technologies, processes, and policies developed for COVID-19 could have on pandemic and seasonal influenza global preparedness and response, especially regarding vaccine development.

The four reports,

• Countering the Pandemic Threat through Global Coordination on Vaccines: The Influenza Imperative
• Vaccine Research and Development to Advance Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19
• Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions: Looking Past COVID-19, and
• Globally Resilient Supply Chains for Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Vaccines 

were developed by committees of experts from across sectors (e.g., government, academia, industry, civil society, international public health organizations) and a variety of disciplines (e.g., global public health; infectious disease prevention; influenza vaccine research, development, and manufacturing; pandemic preparedness and response; virology, and immunology) to inform the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Global Affairs (OGA) and facilitate its efforts to advance global influenza pandemic preparedness.

Agenda

Session 1 (8:00 am — 10:00 am ET)

8:00 am  |  Welcome Remarks

Dana Korsen, Office of News and Public Information, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Victor J. Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine
Loyce Pace, Director, Office of Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

8:10 am  |  Countering the Pandemic Threat through Global Coordination on Vaccines: The Influenza Imperative

Devi Sridhar, Professor, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Committee Vice Chair

8:40 am  |  Q & A

Devi Sridhar, Committee Vice Chair
Phyllis Arthur, Committee Member
Amanda L. Glassman, Committee Member
Alexandra L. Phelan, Committee Member

9:00 am  |  Vaccine Research and Development to Advance Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19

Enriqueta Bond, Founding Partner, QE Philanthropic Advisors, Committee Co-Chair

9:30 am  |  Q & A

Enriqueta C. Bond, Committee Co-Chair
Kanta Subbarao, Committee Co-Chair
Maria Elena Bottazzi, Committee Member
Annette Fox, Committee Member
Florian Krammer, Committee Member
Grace M. Lee, Committee Member
Joshua M. Sharfstein, Committee Member

9:45 am  |  Closing and Adjourn Session 1 

Session 2 (1:00 pm — 3:00 pm ET)

1:00 pm  |  Welcome Back

Stephanie Miceli, Office of News and Public Information, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Victor J. Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine

1:05 pm  |   Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions: Looking Past COVID-19

Patricia J. Garcia, Professor, School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (Peru), Committee Vice Chair

1:35 pm  |  Q & A

Alexander M. Capron, Committee Chair
Patricia J. Garcia, Committee Vice Chair
Lukoye Atwoli, Committee Member
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Committee Member
Denise Gray-Felder, Committee Member
Chandini Raina MacIntyre, Committee Member
Linsey Marr, Committee Member
Tolbert Nyenswah, Committee Member
Rosanna Peeling, Committee Member
Marybeth Sexton, Committee Member

2:00 pm  |  Globally Resilient Supply Chains for Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Vaccines

Ravi Anupindi, Professor of Operations Research and Management, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Committee Chair

2:30 pm  |  Q & A 

Ravi Anupindi, Committee Chair
Prashant Yadav, Committee Vice Chair
Matthew R. Downham, Committee Member
Noreen Hynes, Committee Member
Jennifer Pancorbo, Committee Member

2:50  |  Closing Remarks and Adjourn