Wednesday, 17 August 2022

MEDIA ADVISORY

Virtual Press Conference on an extraordinary meeting for the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE)

Dear Journalists,

An extraordinary virtual meeting for the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) took place on Thursday, 11 August 2022, to propose recommendations to WHO on the use of COVID-19 vaccines. Issues discussed included use of COVID vaccines in children and second booster doses for high risk people.

We are inviting you to a virtual press conference at which the outcomes of this meeting will be outlined by the SAGE chairman and WHO experts.

Date: August 18, 2022

Time: 1500 CEST (Geneva time)

Speakers:

• Dr Alejandro Cravioto, Chairman SAGE
• Dr Kate O’Brien, Director Immunization vaccines Biologicals (IVB), WHO
• Dr Joachim Hombach, Senior health advisor, WHO and SAGE Secretary

How to join the virtual meeting:

Please use this link:

https://who-e.zoom.us/j/91399969752
Passcode: vpcSAGEvpc

Phone:

International numbers available: https://who-e.zoom.us/u/ad370osrNk

Webinar ID: 913 9996 9752

Numeric passcode for phone access: 9465505261

NOTE TO JOURNALISTS

Please ensure you enter your name and media outlet (use name/outlet).  Kindly note, only questions from media (one per journalist) are allowed.  When you sign in you will be automatically put in the meeting room.

WHO reserves the right to remove any participant whose behaviour causes any disruption.  The event is also broadcast on WHO social media channels and you can follow it there.

To ask a question, please click "raise hand" and this will enter you into the queue for questions (it can be found under the tab: participants). 

Please make sure you have a microphone connected or active on your computer.  Do not ask questions via the chat as we cannot guarantee that we will can incorporate them into the Q&A session. 

For translation during the press conference, choices are under "interpretation" or "language interpretation", depending on which version of Zoom you use.

Due to the volume of questions, we are no longer able to take them from phone callers and interpretation is not available via telephone.

Media contacts:

mediainquries@who.int

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