RECORDING: Leveraging Protective Antibodies to Guide Next-Generation Malaria Vaccine Design
In this Research and Innovation Session, Dr. Azza Idris discusses how insights from protective human monoclonal antibodies are informing the development of next-generation malaria vaccines, including approaches to designing immunogens that target conserved sites of vulnerability on P. falciparum.
Featuring:
Speaker: Azza Idris, MD, PhD, Attending Physician, Divisions of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Mass General Brigham for Children; Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Medicine; Principal Investigator, Ragon Institute of Mass General Brigham, MIT, and Harvard
Moderator: Sarah Volkman, ScD, Principal Research Scientist, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Nursing, Simmons University
Yonatan Grad, Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses how drug-resistant gonorrhea highlights broader challenges in antimicrobial resistance.
In this talk, Professor Yonatan Grad presents recent advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of gonorrhea, and discusses emerging frameworks for optimizing implementation and rollout strategies in diverse healthcare settings.
A new letter published in The Lancet, “Global donor funding for COVID-19 was largely disbursed as loans: it’s time to adjust,” co-authored by Jehane Sedky, Abbey Gardner, and Louise Ivers, examines how global COVID-19 aid was delivered—and what the data reveal about the state of international solidarity.