Health Emergency Preparedness: What Were the Lessons Learned From the Last Pandemic? The Point of View of a Biomedical Engineer
Date: May 22, 2025
Faculty: Prof. Davide Piaggio, The University of Warwick
Live broadcast time:
1:30pm-2:30pm in New York / Toronto
7:30pm in Geneva
3:30am (May 16) in Sydney
2:30pm in Buenos Aires
8:30pm in Riyadh
17:30 UTC
Objectives
- Understand what preparedness means
- Explain the best and worst practices related to pandemic management and IPC, examples from COVID-19
- Understand the importance of interdisciplinarity
- Understand the state of the art related to the use of robotics for IPC purposes and contact tracing technologies
- Understand the importance of contextualization (low-resource settings) and education
