“Vaccines, Variants and the Road Ahead”

Monday, April 12, 6:30-8:00 PM

“Vaccines, Variants and the Road Ahead” is the focus of an upcoming webinar on Zoom, sponsored by the Eastern PA Conference Global Ministries Team. The team includes members of the Conference’s former Health & Healing Council.

Two doctors of pharmacy (from St. John’s University in New York) will share what they know and can advise about the three new vaccines now in use to fight COVID-19. Dr. Elsen Jacob is an Assistant Professor at St. Johns University with a clinical residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Her sister Dr. Susan Jacob is a Clinical Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Both are board certified in pharmacotherapy, geriatric pharmacy and patient safety; and both are earning additional Master’s degrees from ivy-league medical schools. Learn more about their education and specialties.*

The two pharmacotherapists will tell us all about the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines and related concerns. They will discuss the similarities and differences among the three vaccines and other related topics, including:

• When should children be eligible to receive them?
• What do we know and what can we do about the variants now spreading in the U.S?
• What is the effectiveness of the vaccines in fighting the variants?
• What should we expect in 2021 and 2022 in our fight to end the pandemic?
• What should the church know and prepare for in the months ahead, including how to safely regather for worship and events?  

Part of our Eastern PA Conference extended family, Susan and Elsen are daughters of the Rev. Dr. Christopher and Christy Jacob Kurien, along with their sister Ann Jacob, an Eastern PA COnference delegate to General Conference.

“The Global Ministries Team is pleased to provide this program as a resource to enable churches to participate in health ministry with their neighbors,” said Deaconess Barbara Drake, Global Ministries chairperson and missions secretary. “We are advocating for an understanding of the importance of vaccines for the protection of the health of our entire communities.”