The Antigen is an eight-part audio-documentary style podcast about the scientific, cultural, and political elements of vaccination. We start with the basic science, review vaccine history, explore the many facets of their global impact – and the public sentiment about vaccines around the world.
The Antigen is an eight-part audio-documentary style podcast about the scientific, cultural, and political elements of vaccination. We start with the basic science, review vaccine history, explore the many facets of their global impact – and the public sentiment about vaccines around the world. Listeners will hear from leading experts about the past, present, and future of this important innovation, as well as people whose families have been impacted by vaccine-preventable diseases.
The Antigen is hosted by Yasmeen Agosti, MD FAAP. Yasmeen is a pediatrician and a Global Medical Lead, Viral Vaccines at Pfizer. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Witwatersrand. Yasmeen trained as a general pediatrician in Philadelphia and, later, conducted clinical research on respiratory syncytial virus in South Africa as part of her doctoral studies. She joined Pfizer in 2017. Learn more about her background and current work at Pfizer
Yasmeen Agosti: Vaccines, shots, jabs. Almost everyone has some kind of reflex when they hear these words.
Speaker 2: They are our hope for our community.
Speaker 3: Why do I need to get myself vaccinated?
Speaker 4: They are the most cost effective, lifesaving technology humankind has ever invented.
Yasmeen Agosti: So, what are vaccines anyway, and how do they work? What impact have they made, and how have they become such a charged topic in our daily lives? I spend much of my day thinking about these things. I'm Yasmeen Agosti, I'm a mom, a pediatrician, and a part of the Viral Vaccines Medical Group Adviser. The Antigen is an eight part podcast about vaccines, the science, the culture, and the politics. We'll start with the basics, review vaccine history, and explore the many facets of their global impact.
Speaker 5: We did travel to one country where there were mothers who didn't name their children until they had gotten their full course of vaccines.
Yasmeen Agosti: All along the way, we'll be hearing from experts about the past, present, future of this important lifesaving innovation.
Speaker 6: As a result of very successful vaccination efforts, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, many of these, they're not around anymore.
Yasmeen Agosti: So, if you would like to understand vaccines better, subscribe to The Antigen wherever you listen to podcasts. Talk to you soon.