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August 18 Webinar: Protecting Your Child's Health Through Safe and Effective Vaccines
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Do you know how vaccines are developed and approved? Or how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ensures that vaccines are safe and effective in preventing disease?
Learn about the vital role that FDA plays in protecting the health of our nation’s children through regulation of vaccines in this 30-minute webinar. An FDA expert will discuss the importance of vaccines to a child’s health, the development process for vaccines, how FDA makes sure vaccines that are granted licensure (approval) are safe and effective, and how the agency oversees their continued safety and effectiveness.
An opportunity to ask questions will follow the presentation.
When: Thursday, Aug. 18, 2:00 p.m. ET
Length: 30 minutes
Where: To join the webinar, see the instructions here. Webinar slides will be posted here also.
Host: Office of Vaccines Research and Review within FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Featured speaker: Norman Baylor, Ph.D., director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review within FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
This webinar is part of a series of online sessions hosted by different FDA centers and offices. The series is part of FDA Basics, a Web-based resource aimed at helping the public better understand what the agency does.
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Updates page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
Aug. 15, 2011
