Speaker: Prof Eyal Leshem
Director, Institute for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Sheba Medical Centre; and Clinical Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University Medical School
Prof Eyal Leshem studied medicine at the Technion, and trained in medicine and infectious diseases at Sheba. After working in Nepal he trained as an EIS officer at the CDC, where he investigated multiple infectious diseases, including MERS, and then worked as a medical epidemiologist in the CDC viral gastroenteritis team, focussing on diarrheal diseases surveillance and rotavirus vaccine impact. He continues to participate in CDC surveillance, and is a consultant to the WHO, assessing vaccine preventable diseases in many countries. He continues to be involved in evaluating both HPV and rotavirus vaccines, and in studies of Dengue, Zika, malaria and travel associated infectious diseases. Recently he has played a leading role in the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Israel, and will talk about his experiences, and about the impact and effectiveness of the programme.
You can watch a recording of the event here.