Online event brings together specialists from USP to discuss vaccines against covid-19
The meeting will address the issue of vaccines from the perspective of five areas of knowledge: sociology, medicine, economics, logistics and law
The Dean of Graduate Studies (PRPG), the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) and the Superintendency of Social Communication (SCS) promote, on the next December 14 (Monday), the online event “Vaccines and covid-19: a multidisciplinary vision ”.
The meeting, which will be broadcast by Canal USP, starting at 8 am, will bring together specialists from the University who will address the issue of vaccines against coronavirus from the perspective of five areas of knowledge: sociology, medicine, economics, logistics and law.
There will be six sessions in which the scientific, epidemiological, social, economic, legal and related aspects of vaccine distribution to the population will be discussed. The mediation will be done by SCS journalist Herton Escobar.
“The University must be present at times when the population and the public sector need qualified information and presented by specialists in different areas. The meeting was planned to answer objective questions, but based on scientific content ”, explains the pro-rector of Graduate Studies, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior.
Event schedule
8 am: Opening: Covid-19, Vaccine and Society
Vahan Agopyan, Dean of USP
Glauco Arbix, professor of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH / USP)
Guilherme Ary Plonski, full professor in the Department of Administration at the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting (FEA / USP) and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA / USP)
8:10 am: Session 1 - The development of Covid-19 vaccines, basic aspects
Luis Carlos Souza Ferreira, professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB / USP)
Célio Silva, professor at Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP / USP)
Jorge Elias Kalil Filho, professor at the Faculty of Medicine (FM / USP)
9 am: Session 2 - The Butantan Institute and the vaccine for Covid-19, current situation
Dimas Covas, professor at FMRP / USP and director of Instituto Butantan
9:15 am: Session 3 - Vaccination: state of the art of epidemiological and clinical aspects
Esper Kallas, Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine (FM / USP)
Expedito José de Albuquerque Luna, professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at FM / USP
10:15 am - Questions and discussion
10:45 am - Session 4: Vaccination: logistics for covid-19 vaccination in Brazil
Claudio Barbieri, full professor at the Department of Transport Engineering at Escola Politécnica (Poli / USP)
Paulo Gonçalves, University of Lugano
Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki, associate professor in the Production Engineering Department at Poli / USP
11:15 am - Session 5: The costs of a vaccine and a pandemic
Maria Dolores Montoya Diaz, professor at the Department of Economics at FEA / USP
Fernando Antônio Slaibe Postali, professor at the Department of Economics at FEA / USP
11:45 am - Session 6: Society, State and Law in Vaccination
Virgílio Afonso da Silva, professor at the Faculty of Law (FD / USP)
12:15 pm - Questions and discussion
12h45 - Closing
Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior, Dean of Graduate Studies at USP