ONLINE: What’s Next for COVID-19? Lessons Learned for 2021 and Preventing a Future Pandemic

press release:  Global Health Tuesday webinars resume on January 26.

Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI), the monthly webinars host researchers and practitioners from campus and across the world. The speakers showcase the complexity of global health challenges and the many kinds of expertise needed to address them. By sharing their experiences, these guests provide insights into global health, encourage conversation and help connect colleagues locally and globally.

February 23, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

“What’s Next After COVID-19?”

Zoom link here.

GHI Director Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, and Professor of Pathobiological Sciences Kristen Bernard, Ph.D., M.S., DVM,  join Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences Ajay Sethi , Ph.D., MHS, in a discussion about lessons learned from COVID-19 and preparing for the next pandemic. The panelists—who come from population health/epidemiology, global health/climate science and pathobiological sciences/zoonoses—explore what’s been learned from the coronavirus epidemic in 2020 and the challenges still facing the world as it attempts to control COVID-19 in 2021. They also look to the future, considering the impacts of climate change and animal-to-human disease transmission as they discuss what’s needed to prevent the next pandemic.

Patz, M.D., MPH,  the John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment, is a recognized leader in the field of climate change and health and has worked as a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a c0-chair of the U.S. National Assessment on Climate Change. He has appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences.

Sethi, Ph.D., MHS, is in the School of Medicine and Public Health. His research interests lie in the study of infectious disease, especially modifiable behavioral and structural factors associated with transmission and death once infections are established.

Bernard, DVM, M.S., Ph.D., is in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research looks to further the understanding of the virus-host interaction with an aim to develop new therapies and vaccines.