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Preventative Warning Systems for Infectious Diseases - Bridging Public and Environmental Health
07 December 2021, 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
The UCL Warning Research Centre invites you to its interdisciplinary webinar: "Preventative Warning Systems for Infectious Diseases - Bridging Public and Environmental Health”
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Department of Science and Technology Studies
This webinar brings key interdisciplinary leaders, working across different organisations including WHO, United Nations, OECD, 4SD, Wellcome Trust and Odum School of Ecology, to discuss how more holistic warning systems against emerging infectious diseases can be implemented. Through this webinar you will have the opportunity to find out more about how environmental, climate and health sectors can collaborate together to prevent EIDs from reoccurring, and consequently diminish the risk of future epidemics and pandemics.
Please note that you must have a Zoom account to register for this event.
Webinar Program (GMT):
16:00-16:05
Introduction to the UCL Warning Research Centre led by Dr Carina Fearnley - Director of the UCL Warning Research Centre
16:05-16:25
Plenary led by Dr David Nabarro CBE - Strategic Director of 4SD, Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College of London - Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19.
16:25-16:30
Short Q&A open to the public
16:30-16:45
Overview of research on warning systems for health threats led by Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini - Research Assistant at the UCL Warning Research Centre.
16:45-16:00
Presentation by Dr John M. Drake - Infectious Disease Intelligence: The Science of Predicting Pandemics
17:00-17:05
Five minute break
17:05-17:20
Second presentation led by Dr Madeleine Thomson - From Early Warning to Resilience
17:20 - 17:35
Presentation by Dr Jan Semenza - Monitoring environmental and climatic precursors of disease
17:35 - 18:00
Q&A led by Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini, with Dr Madeleine Thomson, Dr John M. Drake and Dr Jan Semenza as members of the panel.
About the Speakers
Professor David Nabarro
Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation - Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19 at Imperial College of London
More about Professor David NabarroDr John Drake
Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Director, Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases Graduate Program Faculty at Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
More about Dr John DrakeDr Madeleine Thomson
Head of Climate Impacts at Wellcome Trust
Dr Madeleine Thomson is the Head of Climate Impacts at the Wellcome Trust. Prior to joining Wellcome she was a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University. Her research involves the development of new data, methodologies and tools for improving climate-sensitive health interventions.
More about Dr Madeleine ThomsonDr Jan Semenza
Head of the Health Determinants Programme at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Jan C. Semenza served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, USA and was a faculty member at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Oregon Health and Science University, and at Portland State University where he taught in the Oregon Master Program of Public Health. He led the work on environmental and climatic drivers of infectious disease transmission at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a lead author of the IPCC AR6 report and the co-lead of WG1 and WG2 of the Lancet Countdown in Europe. Currently, he is associated with the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
More about Dr Jan Semenza