SFIC ONLINE BRIEFING FOR FAITH LEADERS

"SF HEALTH OFFICER DR. SUSAN PHILIP 
ADDRESSES THE COVID-19 OMICRON VARIANT,
ITS IMPACT ON OUR CITY & DPH's STRATEGIC RESPONSE"

Thursday, December 16, 2021
8:30 am - 9:45 am

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On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a new variant, B.1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and named it Omicron and on November 30, 2021, the United States also classified it as a Variant of Concern. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been actively monitoring and preparing for this variant, and is continuing to work diligently with other U.S. and global public health and industry partners in its discovery and response efforts. A person in California became the first in the U.S. to have an identified case of the COVID-19 Omicron Variant. Mayor London Breed announced that that case was detected in San Francisco. This week's "Online Briefing for Faith Leaders," hosted by the San Francisco Interfaith Council, welcomes San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Susan Philip, who will explain the Omicron Variant, how it could potentially impact our City and the Department of Public Health's strategic response to mitigate its spread. 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY ONLINE BRIEFING MODERATOR

Michael G. Pappas, M.Div.
Executive Director, San Francisco Interfaith Council

WELCOME & READING OF SFIC STATEMENT

Rita R. Semel

REFLECTIVE MOMENT

The Very Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young, ThD

Introduction of Guest Presenter Dr. Susan Philip by

Dan Bernal
Dr. Susan Philip
SF Health Officer
Susan Philip is the Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco. She has been part of the city’s COVID-19 response since the SFDPH Department Operations Center was first activated on January 21, 2020. Previously she was a Deputy Health Officer and the Director of the Disease Control and Prevention branch in the Population Health Division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. In that role, she oversaw population level clinical, biomedical, disease intervention efforts to reduce communicable and chronic diseases in San Francisco. She has worked for SFDPH since 2005. Dr. Philip received her M.D. from Washington University in St. Louis and trained as a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. After a M.P.H at the Harvard School of Public Health, she completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco and has been an HIV primary care provider at San Francisco City Clinic.
(Dr. Philip will respond to questions from San Francisco Faith Leaders
submitted in advance of this briefing).

CLOSING REMARKS

SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas
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