COVID-19 Symposium at Hopkins: Navigating the Pandemic when Effective Vaccines are in the Policy Toolbox

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8-9 a.m. Keynote: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivers Medicine Grand Rounds Moderator: Sanjay Desai, director of the Osler Medical Residency and professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

9-10:15 a.m., Panel 1: Financial incentives and disincentives for achieving optimal COVID-19 vaccination rates COVID-19 vaccines have the potential to deliver enormous social value. As vaccines get approved and allocated across the nation and the globe, realizing the full potential of vaccines will depend on enough people getting vaccinated to make the spread of the virus unlikely. What strategies will be more effective optimizing vaccination rates? Can financial incentives help to induce people to get vaccinated? What behavioral factors need to be taken into account?

• Alison Buttenheim, scientific director at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics
• Robert Litan, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
• Daniel Polsky, Bloomberg distinguished professor of health policy and economics at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative
• Moderator: Mario Macis, professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and affiliate faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

10:15-11:30 a.m., Panel 2: The pandemic in 2021: setting policy priorities and filling evidence gaps The landscape of managing through the pandemic will be altered as a result of the introduction of vaccines. How can policy makers navigate through policy options to reduce transmission and optimize wellbeing when the options expand beyond non-pharmaceutical interventions to include strategies to optimize vaccination rates? As these decisions become more complex with potentially negative interactions between strategies, we assess decision making needs and emerging tools to help navigate the inherent tradeoffs.

• Beate Jahn, assistant professor at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics, and Technology in Hall in Tirol, Austria, and vice president of the Society for Medical Decision Making
• Shan Liu, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Washington
• Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bloomberg distinguished professor of biostatistics and genetic epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University
• Dan Gorenstein, executive producer and co-host of Tradeoffs Podcast
• Moderator: Kathy McDonald, Bloomberg distinguished professor of health systems, quality, and safety at Johns Hopkins University and co-chair of the COVID-19 Decision Modeling Initiative with the Society for Medical Decision Making

The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative is a new university initiative to improve health care affordability, access, equity, and value through the integration of public-private approaches by uniting world-class experts in research, policy, and practice across the Carey Business School, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of Medicine.