On Saturday, May 1st we had our Study Hall: Facts About the Vax Special. Joining our in house public health expert, Michael Yudell, was Dr. Paul Offit. Our experts each gave a quick lecture in vaccine history and conspiracies and then answered questions from the cast on the Covid-19 vaccines.
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ABOUT MICHAEL YUDELL
Michael Yudell, Professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at Drexel, is an awarding-winning historian and ethicist of public health whose work focuses on the history and ethics of genomics, the history of the race concept, and the history and ethics of autism research. Yudell will soon be Vice Dean of the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University.
ABOUT DR. PAUL OFFIT
Paul A. Offit, MD, is a current member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is the recipient of many awards for his work and has published more than 150 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety. He is also the co-inventor of a landmark rotavirus vaccine recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC.
FEATURES Rob Alesiani, Fred Brown, Sarah Clemency, Kelly Conrad, Marcely Jean-Pierre, James Knight, Mike Marbach (director), Rob O’Neill, and Aaron Unice.