Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved by Health Canada for children under five, the first vaccine approved for that age group in Canada. Western University has the following experts available to comment:
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of Expertise: Paediatric infectious diseases, infections in immunocompromised /vulnerable hosts such as neonates.
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Director of the Adult Infectious Diseases Residency Training Program at Western University
Areas of Expertise: Infectious diseases physician, antimicrobial resistance, healthcare quality, global health, epidemiological observational studies.
Program Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of Expertise: Vaccines for children, immune systems, vaccine safety, drug allergy.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Areas of Expertise: Adolescent consent and capacity, the ethics of mandating vaccination and of vaccinating children against COVID-19.
Professor, School of Health Studies, Co-Director, Health Ethics, Law and Policy (HELP) Lab
Areas of Expertise: Public health ethics, population-level bioethics, infectious disease ethics.
Commentary reflects the perspective and scholarly interest of Western faculty members and is not an articulation of official university policy on issues being addressed.
MEDIA CONTACT: Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca.
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