Supporting Safe and Informed Communities: A COVID-19 Vaccine Information Series
02.11.21
Scranton Area Community Foundation’s Center for Community Leadership and Nonprofit Excellence is committed to serving the capacity building needs of the nonprofit community in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Supporting Safe and Informed Communities:
A COVID-19 Information Series
Join us this Tuesday, February 16, 2021, at 6:00 p.m. for a webinar on COVID-19 Vaccine Education
COVID-19 Vaccine 101:
Vaccine Basics – A Training for our Nonprofit Community
Presented by Swathi Mannava Gowtham, MD
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
6:00 p.m. ETThe Scranton Area Community Foundation believes that serving as a partner to nonprofit organizations is one of its key strategic pillars. Through the Foundation’s
Center for Community Leadership and Nonprofit Excellence, we aim to provide high quality and timely training, support and information to help nonprofits meet their critical missions and to build stronger communities.
The impact of COVID-19 on our lives, our activities, and our communities has affected us all. The Scranton Area Community Foundation’s Board of Governors and staff are working with other regional funders, health care providers, and community partners to make sure that the nonprofit organizations in our communities are best equipped with evidence-based information to help educate and inform their clients and other community members about COVID-19 vaccines.
To that end, The Scranton Area Community Foundation and its partners are providing a series of COVID-19 vaccine educational activities which will be delivered virtually, in order to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to address common questions and concerns surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine and vaccine distribution.
The first of these webinars, COVID-19 Vaccine 101: Vaccine Basics – A Training for our Nonprofit Community, will be held on Tuesday, February 16th at 6 p.m. in partnership with Geisinger.
COVID-19 Vaccine 101:
Vaccine Basics – A Training for our Nonprofit Community
Presented by Swathi Mannava Gowtham, MD
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
6:00 p.m. ET
Swathi Mannava Gowtham, MD, a specialist in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at
Geisinger, will discuss COVID-19 vaccine basics including how the vaccine works in the body, differences of the various vaccines, vaccine efficacy, and related topics. Evidence-based scientific information will be provided which will help nonprofit organizations and other interested community members more clearly understand COVID-19 vaccine basics.
To register, please use the following Webinar Registration Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vj6vwXK-QKqC5EMx9ptyRg
About the Presenter
Dr. Swathi Gowtham is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and director of Pediatric Infection Prevention at Geisinger. She’s also a faculty member at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Dr. Gowtham is part of an infectious diseases physician group at Geisinger that has been addressing the COVID-19 pandemic at the institution. She will discuss the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, the science behind them, and what to expect after your vaccination – and she’ll dispel a few myths. Afterward, she’ll answer any questions you might have regarding the development, safety and effectiveness of vaccines.
In the next few weeks, the next webinar in the series, COVID-19 Vaccine 201: What You Need to Know About Distribution, will be announced and presented. Look for more information to come soon.
For additional information about the COVID-19 vaccine, please visit CDC’s FAQs web page: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html.
Thank you to Moses Taylor Foundation, Geisinger, The Scranton Area Community Foundation, and our many other regional health partners for helping to bring this information to our community!
Questions about this webinar? Please contact Maggie Martinelli at maggie@safdn.org or 570-347-6203.
