Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic

25 Mar - 25 Mar 2021

, By ZOOM

The COVID-19 has completely transformed our world and our country. We have all learnt important lessons whilst going through the worst pandemic of our lives. The far-reaching consequences of COVID-19 to population health and wellbeing are likely to be felt for many years. It is critical that we reflect on our response to the pandemic as we prepare to rise from the ashes.

Join us for a day full of important reflections and discussions on the response and wide implications of COVID-19.

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Agenda

09:00	Opening	Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Lena Al-Shammari, Samantha Field, Jamie Fagg
09:15	Welcome	Professor Maggie Rae, President of the Faculty of Public Health
09.30	SARS-CoV-2 from discovery to new variants	Professor Eddie Holmes, ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases & Biosecurity, School of Life & Environmental Sciences and School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney
10:00	Health & Economy in the context of Covid-19	Chris Giles, Economics Editor Financial Times
10:30	Break
10:45	Asian response	Professor Gabriel Leung, Dean of Medicine, Inaugural Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health, Chair of Public Health Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)
11.15	UK response	Dr Andrew Hayward, Reader Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London
11.45	Break
12:00	Modelling and predictions	Professor Neil Ferguson, Vice Dean Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health
12.30	The quest for a vaccine	Andrew J Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, University of Oxford
13:00	Lunch
13.45	NHS – primary care	Professor Azeem Majeed Professor of Primary Care and Public Health, and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London
14.15	NHS – primary care	Dr Helen Salisbury, General Practitioner, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences University of Oxford
14.45	NHS – secondary care	Dr David Brealey, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinical Lead for Critical Care Clinical Research, Lead for Critical Care, Anaesthetic and Emergency Medicine Research at UCLH
15.15	Break
15.30	Long COVID	Dr Nisreen Alwan, Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Southampton
16:00	Challenges ahead for the UK, EU and the world	Professor Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
16.30	Planning forward by looking backward: the Covid-19 strategy in England	Professor Gabriel Scally Professor of Public Health at the University of the West of England (UWE) and the University of Bristol
17:00	Closing remarks	Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, Lena Al-Shammari, Samantha Field, Jamie Fagg