Name: CVPD Fall Symposium
Start: 2022-09-16T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-09-16T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Faculty Club

CVPD Fall Symposium

With leadership housed at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases is developing an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, educators and public health advocates. Our vision is to catalyze cutting-edge research and education that maximizes the health benefits of immunization for everyone.We aim to contribute locally and globally to healthy communities through excellence in interdisciplinary vaccine-preventable disease and immunization research and education.

The Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Faculty Club

Please join us on Friday, September 16, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDTLocation: The Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ONFunded by a Connaught Global Challenge Award

The University of Toronto’s Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases (CVPD) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health is hosting the CVPD Fall Symposium: Healthy Aging and Immunization on Friday, September 16, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT.The event will be held in a hybrid format: participants can attend in-person at the Faculty Club or join virtually. Following presentations and a panel session, a trainee poster session will take place and lunch will be provided to in-person participants.

After active participation in the symposium, learners will be able to: <ul><li>Discuss different strategies and interventions to improve vaccination in older adults</li><li>Critically reflect on equity gaps in their research and practice</li><li>Examine a point of influence where their research or practice can support advocacy for healthy aging via immunization in older adults</li><li>Identify methods to improve communication about vaccination between health care providers and the public</li></ul>

If you would like to find out more about the trainee call for poster submission guidelines, please click <a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Trainee-Call-for-Posters-CVPD-Symposium-1.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.Following this symposium, we will be holding an in-person trainee session focused on PhD students on soft skills and career paths for graduate students. This session is funded by Merck Canada. Registration for the afternoon event can be found <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/370942748747" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

To facilitate a safer meeting environment, we have taken the following steps: <ul><li>Chosen an event space that allows social distancing and has good air-flow </li><li>Arranged for an outdoor, all-weather space for eating </li></ul>We request that participants please: <ul><li>Wear medical-grade masks during the event, except when eating </li><li>Join us remotely rather than in-person if you are feeling unwell (we will do our best to facilitate switching from in-person to online registration, as needed) </li></ul>

Further event details will be released by email and on the <a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/institutes/centre-for-vaccine-preventable-diseases/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases’ website</a> in the coming weeks.For questions about this event, please contact us at cvpd.dlsph@utoronto.ca.

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