Events

4-Part CAPS/PRC Town Hall Series -- Laying Foundations of Trust: Moving Towards Health Equity

This 4-part CAPS/DPS Town Hall series will explore core social and behavioral aspects of trust and engagement with public health measures in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with an eye towards lessons from HIV work, in order to stimulate programmatic and research agendas that promote health equity.

Our presenters are:

In this UCSF Department of Medicine Covid Grand Rounds, we’ll begin with a discussion of the new vaccine candidates. Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen new data regarding several vaccines, including J&J, AstraZeneca, and Novavax. Dr. Monica Gandhi will review these new data, and discuss the implications for vaccine supply – and why it’s appropriate to be optimistic about vaccines, even in the face of a sluggish roll-out and the threat of variants. She’ll add a few thoughts about whether vaccinated people can change behavior. Dr.

Special presentation and feedback session with NIAID's Peter Kim, Director of the Therapeutics Research Program in the Division of AIDS.

Questions include: What did we learn from the COVID response about NIAID-funded research (HIV, TB, emerging infectious diseases)? How should allocations be changed and pandemic responses optimized? What have we learned about HIV setbacks caused by COVID, and how should we fix them?