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Oct 27
Global Health Seminar – TB vaccines in Children: Past, Present and Future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Online

UGA College of Public Health
Global Health Institute
Fall 2022 Seminar Series

TB vaccines in Children: Past, Present and Future

Lisa Cranmer, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Emory University School of Medicine & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Please join us for this virtual seminar on Thursday, October 27 at 4:00 p.m. via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend! Join the seminar via Zoom at this link: https://zoom.us/j/93607902461?pwd=bGVXQWV0L1ZpYnRZc1dseWlLb2Zvdz09

Speaker Bio: Dr. Cranmer is trained in clinical medicine at Johns Hopkins and in pediatric infectious disease at University of Washington, and is currently Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Emory School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Her research focuses on tuberculosis detection and prevention among pregnant women living with HIV and their children. She has worked to define the burden of TB infection and disease among children living with HIV Kenya while based in the field there, and is currently supported by a K23 award to the role of maternal antibodies on infant risk for early TB infection. She also is Protocol Chair for an IMPAACT/HVTN TB vaccine trial in pre-adolescents in South Africa.

Contact Juliet Sekandi for additional information.

Details

Date:
October 27, 2022
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Organizer

Global Health Institute
Website:
https://ghi.publichealth.uga.edu

Venue

Online