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Lunch Hour Lecture | Managing Covid19 – how could we have done (and do) better?
22 November 2022, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
This Lunch Hour Lecture will look at the management of Covid19 and explore whether we could have done better.
This event is free.
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About the Lecture:
Human behaviour is at the heart of managing pandemic infections such as Covid19, for example wearing facemasks indoors when transmission is high and self-isolating when ill or testing positive for Covid19. Behavioural science helps us to understand why such behaviours do or do not occur and to identify key influences on behaviour: people’s capabilities, motivations and/or opportunities to engage in certain behaviours. This is summarised in the COM-B (Capability-Opportunity-Motivation-Behaviour) model which is linked to a broader framework for designing and evaluating behavioural interventions and policies, the Behaviour Change Wheel.
COVID-19 has shown that no person, community or nation is an island. Combining lessons learnt during the pandemic with behavioural and social science evidence allows us to improve our pandemic policies and societal resilience.
This Autumn, we bring you a Lunch Hour Lecture Series to showcase how UCL research transforms lives.
About the Speaker
Susan Michie FMedSci, FAcSS, FBA
Professor of Health Psychology and Director of UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL
Professor Michie’s research focuses on human behaviour change in relation to health and the environment and addresses population, organisational and individual level interventions. She leads the Human Behaviour-Change Project (www.humanbehaviourchange.org) and is author of the Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide to Designing Interventions.
She has served as an expert advisor on the UK’s Covid-19 Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behavioural Science (part of SAGE), the Lancet’s Covid-19 Commission and a member of the UK’s Independent SAGE. She is chair of WHO’s Behavioural Insights and Sciences Technical Advisory Group.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/susan-michie
Twitter: @SusanMichie