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Update on COVID -19 Vaccines for Children 6 months – 17 years | June 30, 2022

Date of Presentation: June 30, 2022

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Maternal and Child Health  

Keywords: #covid-19 vaccines  #pediatrics  

In this presentation, Dr Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH, ECHO faculty member and Medical Epidemiologist for the Portland Area Indian Health Service and Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, and Tyanne Conner, Native Boost Project Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, provide the latest recommendations for and updates on the COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy data for children 6 months and older.

Recording will be made available shortly following the session

Presented by:

Dr. Tom Weiser | Tyanne Conner

Thomas Weiser, MD, is the Medical Epidemiologist for the Portland Area Indian Health Service assigned to the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and NW Tribal Epidemiology Center. He has been with PHS since 1998, initially serving as an IHS Medical Officer in Whiteriver, Arizona from 1998-2005. He completed the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service from 2005-2007. In addition to supporting general public health and epidemiologic research at the NW Tribal Epidemiology Center, Tom is also the Co-Chair of the Portland Area IHS Institutional Review Board. Nationally, he has served on the IHS Heroin, Opioids and Pain Efforts (HOPE) Committee as the Chair of the Metrics Sub-committee and since 2018 has served as the IHS ex-officio representative to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).

Tyanne Conner, is the Native Boost Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB). She came to NPAIHB from the CDC Foundation, where she served as the COVID-19 Public Health Workforce Development Trainer. Prior to that Tyanne worked at OHSU School of Medicine as a Program Technician for the Undergraduate Medical Education Program.

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Date added: June 30, 2022