The Global Response to the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 2.30pm to 4pm
Seminar rooms, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, OX3 7LF
Please note: The BDI seminar rooms are full to capacity.
The event will also be livestreamed to the Bernand Sunley Lecture Theatre at St Catherine's College, so please go there if you would like to view the event.
Programme
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and prospects for COVID-19 control
Dr Conall Watson, Senior Research Fellow, Epidemic Diseases Research Group,Nuffield Department of Medicine
Consultant in Health Protection, Public Health England South East Centre
NHS hospitals and the impact of SARS-CoV-2
Dr Katie Jeffery, Consultant Microbiologist, Director of Infection Prevention and Control, John Radcliffe Hospital
The ethics of research in global emergencies
Prof Michael Parker, Director of the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, and the Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health
How pre-symptomatic transmission and mild disease affect prevention and resilience: building on lessons from SARS-2003 and Influenza-2009
Prof Christophe Fraser, Senior Group Leader in Pathogen Dynamics at the Big Data Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine
Successes and challenges: lessons from the Ebola outbreak
Prof Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research, Head of the Global Health Network and Senior Research Scientist in Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine