This webinar will equip clinicians, clinic staff, and community health workers with the latest guidance on delivering flu, RSV, and COVID-19 vaccines to marginalized and underserved populations, including migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, mobile people, and uninsured or underinsured individuals. The session will present current clinical recommendations, clarify evolving federal and state policies, and highlight strategies to reduce access barriers and strengthen vaccine uptake in community and workplace settings.
This webinar is part of our two-part Fall Vaccination series. Register for the accompanying webinar, “Building Trust: Equipping CHWs and Outreach Teams for Fall Vaccines”
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At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to…
- Describe current clinical recommendations for influenza, RSV (adult and maternal), infant RSV monoclonal prophylaxis, and COVID-19 vaccines.
- Explain the impact of evolving FDA, CDC, state, and pharmacy policies on vaccine access and delivery.
- Identify common access barriers faced by underserved populations, including agricultural workers, mobile people, and under- or uninsured patients.
Presenters
Laszlo
Madaras
MD, MPH, FAAFP, SFHM
Chief Medical Officer
Migrant Clinicians Network
As the Chief Medical Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network, Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH is responsible for the oversight of MCN clinical activities. He also serves as a subject matter expert for various health topics including emerging issues, farmworker health, and Tuberculosis. Over the last 30 years, in parts of Africa, Central America, South America, the Pacific Islands, and the United States, Dr. Madaras has served thousands for wide-ranging ailments, including newly emerging diseases.
Dr. Madaras arrived to in the United States as a Hungarian refugee in 1968 at the age of seven and eventually became a US citizen. Dr. Madaras received his MD and MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1993. Early experiences include working as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in pediatrics in Gabon, West Africa; as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Congo; and as a pesticide review manager at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He worked on the Congo/Rwandan border during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and on the Hungarian border with the former Yugoslavia in 1995.
Since 1996, Dr. Madaras has been a board-certified family physician in both inpatient and outpatient medicine in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine, and Obstetrics. He served as a frontline clinician at the Keystone Health Center where he cared for farmworkers and their families and became Assistant Medical Director from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, he became a hospitalist in Chambersburg and Waynesboro Hospitals in south central Pennsylvania, where he continues to work part time. In 2016, he became a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. In 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
In addition, Dr. Madaras has worked as a staff physician in Tuberculosis control at the Pennsylvania State Health Department since 2012, and regularly teaches US-based medical students on an international health rotation in Honduras. Dr. Madaras also teaches hospital medicine to Penn State nurse practitioner and physician assistant students and medical residents at Summit Health.