Coffee Talk: Conversation on Back-to-School Vaccinations, COVID-19 Boosters, and Monkeypox | |
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In observance of National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM), the National Indian Health Board, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Indian Health Service (IHS), is hosting two webinars to provide a situational update on the evolving monkeypox outbreak in Indian Country, Omicron subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Catch-Up to Get Ahead Toolkit.
- Join us on August 24 at 4:00 PM ET to hear IHS discuss back-to-school recommended immunizations, including COVID-19 boosters, and to learn more about HHS's Toolkit aimed at helping schools and health providers spread awareness about catch-up immunizations during the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic.
- Join us on August 26 at 3:00 PM ET to hear CDC experts share what frontline workers need to know about monkeypox, including the current number of monkeypox cases in Indian Country and how the CDC Monkeypox response is sharing information and data to AI/AN populations, and vaccines.
For questions, contact Audrianna Marzette, Project Coordinator, Public Health Policy and Programs, at amarzette@nihb.org.
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What: Webinar on Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, monkeypox, and Catch-Up to Get Ahead Toolkit.
When: Friday, August 26, 2022
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time
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Who should attend?
Native families, nurses, school administrators, emergency responders, health educators, and other Tribal public health professionals interested in preventing the spread of COVID-19 and monkeypox.
| After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the webinar. | |
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Vivian Porter, MPH, PE
Vivian Porter currently serves as the CDC Public Health Advisor assigned to the Indian Health Service National Immunization Program based in Albuquerque, NM. Before joining the IHS program, Porter served as a Public Health Advisor with the Texas Immunization Branch and the Oklahoma Immunization Service. Before working with the CDC Immunization Services Division, Vivian was an environmental engineer with IHS. She started her career at the IHS California Area Office Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, building water and wastewater systems for Tribes throughout Southern California. She then transitioned to the Office of Environmental Health and Engineering at IHS Headquarters in Rockville, MD.
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Inger Damon, MD, PhD
Dr. Inger Damon is the director of the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP). She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory University in Atlanta and Director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for Smallpox and Other Poxvirus Infections. From August 2014 to April 2015, she was the Incident Commander of the CDC’s 2014 Ebola Response Team. Dr. Damon joined the CDC in 1999 as a medical officer (Lieutenant Commander) in the U.S. Public Health Service, working with the poxvirus team.
Prior to joining the CDC in 1999, Dr. Damon completed her medical residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she fulfilled a clinical fellowship in infectious diseases and a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular virology at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
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