Harvard Alumni for Global Development

Webinar - Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa

Harvard Alumni for Global Development (HAGD) will be hosting a virtual webinar on June 22nd, at 12 pm ET

Hello everyone! Thanks for your interest in our recent Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa Webinar, hosted by Nour Sharara, and with Dr. Joe Fitchett and Dr. Mosoka Fallah as our panelists. Thank you as well to those who managed to join the live session. For those who could not and would like to see the recorded session, please, find the video, audio, and flyer of the session here.

Thanks, Harvard Alumni for Global Development

In this session, we will hear from pandemic response leaders on the ground working on improving testing access and scaling up Covid-19 vaccination programs to control the pandemic in Africa. We will learn about the ongoing efforts in domestic manufacturing, regional and international partnerships, and the latest efforts to stimulate demand for vaccines. All are invited. If interested, please sign up using this registration form and share it with others interested in global health & development. We have 2 excellent panelists with us for this session.

Panelist #1: Dr. Joe Fitchett is Senior Adviser for Biotechnology at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal. In this role, Joe oversees the strategy to design and scale production of medical countermeasures for epidemics as part of a newly established Dakar biotechnology hub.

Joe has trained in public health and infectious disease epidemiology (Harvard), clinical medicine (Imperial), and immunology of infectious diseases (LSHTM).

Previously, Joe was medical director at Mologic, an innovative life science and not for profit biotechnology company, now known as Global Access Diagnostics, and a program officer at the Gates Foundation, responsible for advancing the foundation’s bilateral partnerships with a number of EU donors, through joint investments and multilateral engagement.

In 2015, Joe joined Harvard University as a Frank Knox Fellow in public health and infectious disease epidemiology, focusing his doctorate on transforming the path for equitable access to innovative technologies for neglected epidemics.

Panelist #2 : Dr. Mosoka P. Fallah is the Team Lead for Country Engagement Technical Assistance of the Saving Lives and Livelihood (SLL) Program of Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC). Africa CDC is the technical arm of the African Union responsible for Health Security for the Continent of Africa.

He is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health at the Harvard Medical School. He was recently appointed as an Adjunct Faculty at the newly created Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research (CEID) at Boston University.

He was the recent past Director General of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) that he co-founded. NPHIL was developed as a consequence of the devastation of the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in Liberia.

Dr. Fallah completed his PhD in Immunology at the University of Kentucky, his MPH in Global Health/Infectious Disease Epidemiology, at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. For his work building community-level trust in the Ebola response, Dr. Fallah was named one of the Time Magazine Persons of the Year in 2014.