Join Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) for a webinar as part of Worldwide Week at Harvard

Wednesday, Oct. 7

8 – 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada)

 

Click here to preregister or to join the Zoom webinar

 

Scientists from the HMS-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) in Boston and colleagues in China, Italy and South Africa will explore the impact and response to COVID-19 in various regions of the world. We will discuss initial and ongoing efforts in several countries, lessons learned and the way forward in facing the challenges ahead as a global community. A question-and-answer session will follow.

 

Speakers include (in order of appearance):

 

Mark Elliott

Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University

 

George Q. Daley

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University

Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Megan Murray

Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Director of Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and Partners In Health

 

Nanshan Zhong

Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou Medical University

Director, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease

 

Salim Abdool Karim

Director, Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)

Member, African Task Force on Coronavirus, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Professor of Global Health, Columbia University

Adjunct Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Fabio Ciceri

Scientific Director, San Raffaele Scientific Institute

Professor of Hematology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, Italy

 

Paul Farmer

Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University

Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Division of Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Co-founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health

 

Note: This webinar will be recorded and news reporters may be present.