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Speaker: Erica Jonlin
Regulatory Manager
UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Topic: Ethical Challenges in SARS-CoV2 Vaccine Development and Delivery
This presentation will address the numerous ethical challenges and controversies and competing forces confronting the development and roll-out of vaccines against SARS-CoV2.
With the disruption of every aspect of life as we have known it, society waits with great anxiety and
anticipation for the arrival of a safe and efficacious vaccine against SARS-CoV2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Scientific challenges notwithstanding, we do have reason to be optimistic about development of a vaccine, if not multiple vaccines, given the extraordinary amount of financial and intellectual resources that have been put behind vaccine development, the unprecedented international andindustry-academic-governmental collaborations, and the cooperation and assistance of regulatory agencies. However, both development and ultimate roll-out of vaccines against SARS-CoV2 are fraught with ethical challenges, not the least of which are the political forces and tensions at home and abroad that could be interpreted as straining to influence the approval and roll-out processes. This presentation will summarize some of the ethical challenges in SARS-CoV2 vaccine development and delivery, ranging from clinical trial design, to required levels of efficacy, to prioritization of who gets the vaccine as it’s rolled out, to issues concerning who is at the table influencing and adjudicating these issues.
SPEAKER BIO
Erica Jonlin is the regulatory manager for clinical research activities in the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) and the UW Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, where she is responsible for educating and assisting investigators in complying with FDA and IRB regulations. Erica regularly lectures and publishes on ethical conundrums in Human Subjects research and stem cell research, and for over 13 years she was an instructor for the UW Certificate in Clinical Trials and UW Biomedical Regulatory Affairs Masters of Science programs. For five years, Jonlin was a human subjects review administrator for one of the University of Washington's Institutional Review Boards, serving as a member and facilitator of the committee, and documenting committee reviews and decisions. Erica has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry which she earned at the University of California, Los Angeles.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 29, 2020
6:00 to 8:00 pm
WHERE: Online Zoom Meeting
FEES: No fees for Members and Guests
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