Webinar with BBC Host

Dr Michael Head, Senior Global Research Fellow from our RESIN team has organised a free to attend COVID-19 webinar: Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response – how has University of Southampton stepped up? This webinar will take place on Tuesday 20th October and is being chaired by Zoe Kleinmann, BBC Presenter & Senior Reporter and will have 7 University of Southampton speakers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the UK and around the globe. By September 2020, there have been >30 million confirmed cases and over 1 million COVID-19 deaths.  With the emergence of a new infectious disease, there is an urgent need to gather new knowledge that can support the care of patients, reduce transmission, and eventually allow populations to return to their normal way of life.

The University of Southampton (UoS) has extensive expertise across many areas of research and medicine. Many groups and individuals have used their skills and knowledge to great effect in supporting the pandemic response, and developing and applying the findings from research and clinical practice. A few case studies of the UoS response will be highlighted in this evening webinar (with profuse apologies to the many colleagues who are doing excellent work who we couldn’t fit into this programme!).

The talks will cover COVID-19 medicines and vaccines; how the global health world is spending research money and how can it be spent better; the use of maps and movement of populations to work out the spread of COVID-19; bringing engineers and doctors together; the impact of inequalities and ‘long COVID’; and the psychological effects of a pandemic.

Click here for more information and to register.