Tutorial: Global Health - Lessons COVID can teach us about public health as a global system

Category: Tutorial Dates - Other

Date: September 16th 2020 8:50am until 4:30pm

Location: via MS Teams

 
These tutorials are open to Public Health Specialty Registrars on the South West Public Health Training Programme only.

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If you have confirmed attendance and then find you are unable to attend, it is important to inform Lucy Brenton.

 

08.50-09.00

Welcome and introductions

09.00-10.00

Global secondary impacts of COVID-19Dr Nadeem Hasan, COVID-19 Health and Science Team Leader, DfID

10.00-10.30

BREAK

10.30-11.30

Has COVID-19 international policy and response been compatible with Malawi?
Dr Titus Divala, Commonwealth Scholar and Helse Nord RHF Fellow, LSHTM/Helse Nord Tuberculosis Initiative, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Malawi.

Presentation based on the following article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31056-4/fulltext

11.30-12.30

LUNCH          

12.30-13.00

Training Programme Update
Training Programme team

13.00-14.00

Insights from being Editor-in-Chief of the CMO’s Annual Report on Global Health
Dr Catherine Falconer, Consultant in Public Health, Somerset County Council

14.00-14.15

BREAK

14.15-15.15

Community-led COVID-19 response: lessons from Kambia, Sierra Leone
Dr Luisa Enria, Assistant Professor in Political Anthropology, LSHTM &
Dr Joseph S. Bangura, District Medical Officer, Kambia, Sierra Leone

15.15-15.30

BREAK

15.30-16.30

COVAX: Ensuring equitable access to vaccines against COVID-19
Dr David Wood, Independent Consultant. Formerly: Coordinator, Quality, Safety and Standards, Vaccines Department, WHO.

 

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