Dear colleagues,

Join us for the launch of IAP webinar report on Countering Vaccine Hesitancy on Tuesday 26 April, 11:00 AM UTC (13:00 pm CEST)

We encourage academy leaders and Fellows, along with their communications teams, representatives of other scientific organizations, scientists and the press to participate in this online event designed to assist academies with outreach and address concerns from the global public on this topical issue.

To join the event, please register in advance at THIS LINK .

We hope to see many of you at this webinar!

With best regards,

IAP Secretariat

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Speakers:

Welcome remarks by IAP Co-Presidents

Prof. Richard Catlow and Prof. Depei Liu

‘Building trust in vaccines and their regulation’

Prof. Toni Gabaldón, Professor, Comparative Genomics Group Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS), and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Spain;  Member, Member, IAP COVID Expert Group; Alumnus, Spanish Young Academy

‘Dealing with mis- and dis-information in the COVID era’

Prof. Herman Wasserman, Professor of Media Studies, Centre for Film and Media Studies, South Africa; University of Cape Town; Member, Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

‘A vaccine curriculum for school children’

Dr. Carol O’Donnell, Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC)