The Global Response to the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak

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