Biobanking for Pandemic Preparedness

Join us for this one-hour webinar, sponsored by PATH and CEPI, where experts from the international biorepository community will present their current work on biobanking for pandemic response, and share experiences and lessons learned with the broader research community. You’ll learn more about:

• New pandemic biospecimen repository initiatives.
• Advancing the Pandemic Agreement.
• Building trust and social acceptance for biobanks.
• Strategies for rapid deployability in biobanking.
• Accessing and sharing specimens from repositories.

SPEAKERS will include:

Roger Peck, PATH
Moderator

Selorm Avumegah, PhD, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
Introduction to CEPI’s Biospecimen Sourcing Initiative

Austin Liu, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
Advancing the Pandemic Agreement: Viewpoints and what is next

Daniel Simeon-Dubach, MD, medservice
Building trust and social acceptance: Why developing respectful partnerships and aligning different stakeholder goals to the overall aims of biobanks from the beginning is important

Zisis Kozlakidis, PhD, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
Strategies for rapid deployability in biobanking: IARC’s experiences in implementing rapid collection initiatives

May Chu, PhD, and Thomas Jaenisch, MD, PhD, Center for Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health
Access and sharing regional-representative characterized specimens in a federated and distributed biorepository system: The need for data harmonization across sites and standard protocols

The session will be recorded and available to those who register.