EP #196 - 1.05.2021 - The COVID-19 Vaccine

Today we have a discussion of the challenges in delivering the COVID-19 in the United States with Jaime Anne Earnest Senior Researcher for Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the US Department of Defense's Center for Global Health Engagement.

Dr. Jaime Anne Earnest is the Senior Researcher for Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation at the US Department of Defense's Center for Global Health Engagement, and is an Assistant Professor in Preventative Medicine and Biostatistics at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She has served as a Branch Chief in the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Mental Health, a program evaluation translational scientist and strategist at Headquarters, Department of the Army at the Pentagon, an evaluation methodologist at Army Public Health Center, and a senior health administration fellow at the National Vaccine Program Office, Office of the Secretary of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. There, she supported multiple National Vaccine Advisory Committees and coordinated the National Vaccine Advisory Committee's Vaccine Confidence Working Group. She received her PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Public Health Policy from the University of Glasgow as a Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholar, and her Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy from Drexel University. She is a Medical Reserve Corps field epidemiologist volunteer who conducts contact tracing, testing, and vaccination clinics in her spare time.