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WHO Webinar Series on Trust and Pandemic Preparedness: Webinar 1: Trust and pandemics [1]

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Date: 2023-01-25

Wednesday, 25 January 2023, 14:00 – 15:00 CET

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted trust as an important determinant of successful pandemic response and leadership; a prerequisite for the uptake of interventions and behaviour change among communities; and a contributing factor in community resilience. The WHO Department for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention has begun to develop an area of work on Trust and Pandemic Preparedness. This purpose of this initiative is to bring together a diversity of voices, perspectives and experiences, to co-develop a framework to assess and measure the dimensions of trust in the context of pandemics. The first activity of the initiative is a webinar series on Trust and Pandemic Preparedness to be hosted by WHO during the first quarter of 2023.

This webinar will review the lessons learned at the intersection of trust and different pandemic responses including HIV, Ebola and COVID-19.

Speakers

Dr. Sylvie Briand, Director, Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention, WHO

Prof Oyewale Tomori, Professor of Virology at Redeemer’s University and past President of the Nigerian Academy of Science

Bio: Oyewale Tomori is a past President of the Nigeria Academy of Science with experience in virology, laboratory diagnosis, disease prevention and control. He served as the Regional Virologist and Polio Laboratory Network Coordinator, WHO-AFRO Region. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) at the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria, and adviser on control of disease epidemics at national and international levels

Andy Seale, Senior Advisor, Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes WHO

Bio: Andy Seale is an adviser in the WHO department of global HIV, hepatitis and STI programmes. He has worked closely with communities living with and affected by HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs for several decades and has held various positions at WHO, UNAIDS and the Global Fund. He has a Master’s degree in Participation, Power and Social Change from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University and an MSc in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Liverpool. He has worked nationally in the UK and at the regional level in east and southern Africa. Andy supported WHO’s response to an Ebola outbreak in Uganda in 2000 and more recently has been supporting the response to mpox (monkeypox).

Thomas J. Bollyky, Director of the Global Health Program, Council on Foreign Relations and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

Bio: Thomas J. Bollyky is director of the Global Health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and a senior consultant to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Prior to coming to CFR, Bollyky served in a variety of positions in the U.S. government, including at the White House, and has testified multiple times before the U.S. Congress. Mr. Bollyky is the author of the book Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways.

Dr Zubaida Haque, Member at the Independent SAGE UK, Former CEO, The Equality Trust

Bio: Dr Zubaida Haque is the former CEO of The Equality Trust, and former interim CEO of The Runnymede Trust – a national race equality think tank in the UK. A leading social scientist, Zubaida has significant knowledge of intersectional inequalities within health, education, employment, housing, immigration and criminal justice in the UK. Zubaida was also voted by Lancet as one of the leading women in the sphere of science and public health during COVID-19. Zubaida is a member of Independent SAGE in the UK (which engages directly with the public, and shares independent and transparent advice with the public about covid-19 and public health); an expert adviser on the London Mayor’s Advisory Group on Equality Diversity and Inclusion; and a member of the Advisory Group on Structural Racism and Health Equity in London.

Prof Lucille Blumberg, Honorary Consultant for the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Chair of WHO STAG-IH

Bio:Specialist in infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, founding head Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa. Consultant Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, University of Stellenbosch and Right to Care. Chair WHO IH- STAG.

Save the date:

Webinar 2: The shifting landscape of trust history, leadership & communities, 17 February 2023

Webinar 3: The digital information ecosystem and trust, 15 March 2023

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