NIH VideoCast - Demystifying Medicine - Ethics in Vaccine Development, Testing and Use - Making a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Demystifying Medicine - Ethics in Vaccine Development, Testing and Use - Making a COVID-19 Vaccine

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Air date:	Tuesday, March 9, 2021, 4:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 1,244 (689 Live, 555 On-demand)
Category:	Demystifying Medicine
Runtime:	01:44:45
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Description:	Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series Which is the harder task: to produce a vaccine built on a novel mRNA platform at breakneck speed in the midst of a pandemic, as cases and deaths rapidly climbed into the millions; or to articulate the ethics of this vaccine's testing and subsequent distribution to a global population. During the next Demystifying Medicine course, you will hear from two NIH experts who express their gratitude in not having the other person's difficult job. The first speaker is Dr. Corbett, a senior research fellow in the NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC) Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory. Dr. Corbett has become a central figure in COVID vaccine science. Prior to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, she and her VRC colleagues were studying the fundamental mechanics of coronaviruses, a family of viruses that includes SARS and MERS. Her work enabled a jumpstart in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 that utilized an mRNA approach to "teach" cells how to make a protein to trigger an immune response against SARS-CoV-2. This vaccine, further developed and marketed by the company Moderna, was approved by the FDA for emergency use authorization in December 2020. The second speaker is Dr. Grady, chief of the Clinical Center's Department of Bioethics. Her research contributions are both conceptual and empirical and are primarily in the ethics of clinical research including informed consent, vulnerability, study design, recruitment, and international research ethics. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Grady and her colleagues have provided consultation and have written and spoken about a number of ethical issues related to COVID-19 research and clinical care, such as health care provider responsibilities, fair allocation of resources, and selection of appropriate research study designs.

Author:	Kizzmekia Corbett, PhD, NIAID, NIH and Christine Grady, PhD, Clinical Center, NIH

CIT Live ID:	41289
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=41289

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