Weekly webinar on COVID-19 broadcast every Thursday at 2pm BST, hosted by the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID).

Each episode includes an update on the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, and a review of the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 biomedical research and experimental medicine. 

Weekly webinar on COVID-19 broadcast every Thursday at 2pm BST, hosted by the Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID).

Each episode includes an update on the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, and a review of the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 biomedical research and experimental medicine. 

Global Health Preparedness in the Face of Emerging Epidemics

Jointly hosted by UCL Grand Challenges, UCL Institute for Global Health, and The Lancet, this online lecture will present key emerging lessons on global health preparedness as the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, and implications for the future of global health.

Programme

15:00 (BST) - Global release of the lecture

- Welcome and Opening Remarks (Professor Michael Arthur, President & Provost of UCL)

- Meeting Chair (Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet)

- Keynote lecture (Dr Muhammad Pate, Global Director for Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group)

- Response (Professor Andrew Hayward, Director of the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Inclusion Health)

17:00 (BST) - Live panel discussion and Q&A with the audience

We will provide a link for all attendees to submit questions to the panel.

17:55 (BST) – Vote of thanks and close meeting (Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Director of the UCL Institute for Global Health)