About this event

  • Date and time Thu 23 Apr 2020 from 12:30pm to 1:00pm
  • Location Online

Register to join Episode 7 'Exploring the global pandemic and its unknown destiny' on Zoom here.

Professor David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, joins us to discuss the challenges of the world-wide pandemic, exploring the short and medium-term implications for populations across the world, and the importance of recognising that its longer-term destiny is currently unknown.

Professor Heymann will discuss his role in translating evidence into policy and practice with Dr Claire Bayntun, who returns as our host.

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Key speakers

Professor David Heymann

Professor David Heymann

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 

Speaker's biography

Professor David Heymann is currently professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Head and Senior Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London; and chairman of Public Health England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

 

Previously, he was the World Health Organization's (WHO) Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, and Representative of the Director-General for polio eradication.

 

From 1998 to 2003, he was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster, during which he headed the global response to SARS, and prior to that was Director for the WHO programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases.

Location

Online

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