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Science advice & COVID-19 - What are we learning?

Professor at the Centre of the Study of the Sciences and Humanities (SVT) at UiB, Matthias Kaiser, will be moderating a discussion panel on Covid-19 organized by INGSA - International Network for Government Science Advice.

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SVT's own Matthias Kaiser is moderating the Europe discussion panel.
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The panel is part of the European program of INGSA's Global Week of Dialogue, which is run across time zones from 14 to 18 September 2020. The week is kicked off by a key note speech on 9 September by Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation

INGSA are running these events to start to pick apart some of the strands of what has happened during the Covid-19 pandemic - to shed light on real-time lessons that jurisdictions and the multi-lateral system can draw on to improve their potential for better outcomes in the immediate, medium and long term.

The panel moderated by professor Kaiser takes place at 2-3 pm Norwegian time on Zoom, and has the following panelists:

♦ Anne-Greet Keizer - Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy - former Executive Secretary, ESAF

♦ Alessandra Zampieri - Head of Unit, European Commission Joint Research Centre - Disaster Risk Management

♦ Prof Christian Droste -  Director, Institute of Virology - Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin

♦ Prof Devi Sridhar - Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh

It's possible to submit questions to the panel in advance, see the web page for more details.