Online Seminar: COVID 19 infection in Health care workers and patients in Western Norway

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Date(s) - 07/05/2020
12:30 am - 2:00 am

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Topic: “COVID 19 infection in Health care workers and patients in Western Norway “

With: Professor Rebecca Cox

At: Thursday May 7th – 12:30 

Prof- Rebecca Cox will talk about her ongoing study on the spred of SARS2 among Health care workers and patients in Western Norway.

About the lecturer: 

Rebecca Cox is professor in medical virology and head of the Influenza Centre at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rebecca Cox completed her PhD in 1995 at the London Hospital Medical College, University of London, UK before post doc positions at Guys Hospital, UK and the University of Bergen, Norway. She has >25 years of experience of influenza and pandemic work particularly in development and evaluation of influenza vaccines. She has serves as advisor to the WHO SAGE Immunization Working Group on Influenza, the Norwegian epidemic and pandemic committee and European Medicines Agency (EMA) She is deputy chair of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses and senior editor for the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses and associate editor of the journals human vaccines and immunotherapeutics and Vaccines and Molecular Therapeutics (specialty section of Frontiers in Immunology and Frontiers in Public Health). She is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and regularly contributes to the public debate on Influenza, vaccines and pandemics through multi-media channels.

All members will receive a zoom-link to join a few days before the event.