Seminar 18 May - Methodological issues in evaluating real-world vaccine effectiveness during the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines
Kings Global Health Institute invites you to a seminar with Dr Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma and Dr Tarylee Reddy evaluating real-world effectiveness of the Ad26-SARS Cov2 vaccine on hospitalisation & death among almost 1/2 million South African health workers.
Wednesday 18th May 15:30-17:00 (BST) / 16:30 – 18:00 (SAST)
Chair: Professor Lara Fairall
Please register here https://bit.ly/3vKWhwj
Speakers:
Dr Tarylee Reddy: Deputy-Head, Biostatistics Division, South African Medical Research Council
Dr Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma: Head of Biostatistics, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
Drs Reddy and Yende-Zuma are the lead statisticians for the Sisonke Phase 3 b trial evaluating the real-world effectiveness of the Ad26-SARS Cov2
vaccine on hospitalisation and death among almost half a million South African health workers. They will provide insights on the appropriate methods
and challenges of using routinely collected data to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
