The economics of pandemic preparedness: Trade-offs in peacetime and pandemics
Synopsis
The Jameel Institute at Imperial College London hosts a day of panels and break-out discussions focused on how to navigate the trade-offs in investment between pandemic preparedness and the surveillance, prevention and management of endemic infectious diseases.
Organised in collaboration with Imperial College London's Institute of Infection and Business School, the programme includes talks from a range of organisational, discipline and global perspectives.
George Richards, director of Community Jameel, chairs a panel discussion titled 'Tradeoffs in peacetime and pandemics', exploring how different disciplines can coordinate in an emergency situation and what investments are priority in order to prepare for pandemics and to respond to them.
Participants
Jonathan Haskel
Edith Patouillard
Els Torreele
Susan Michie
Ifedayo Adetifa
John Edmunds
George Richards
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About the event
Pandemics and epidemics can lead to great loss of life - and they are costly to fight. In 2018, epidemics reportedly cost the world USD 60 billion a year.
Why are pandemic prevention and preparedness underfunded? Pandemic preparedness competes with other urgent policy priorities. Severe pandemics are uncommon and unpredictable, but election cycles of policymakers are short. The full benefits of investment in pandemic prevention and preparedness will extend well beyond election cycles, and even the lifetime of policymakers.
And the question arises: in what to invest? There is weak evidence on which pandemic preparedness and prevention activities generate the greatest returns, and they are likely to vary between countries of different income levels.
The objective of this workshop is to hold a debate that informs policy and research priorities for pandemic prevention and preparedness, recognising that budgets are limited, and tough choices must be made in the trade-offs between population health and the economy.
09h30-10h00 - Registration and coffee
10h00-10h10 - Introduction and opening remarks | Professor Katharina Hauck, deputy director, Jameel Institute, and Professor Charles Bangham, co-director, Institute of Infection
10h10-10h30 - Professor Jonathan Haskel | Bank of England and Imperial College London
10h30-10h45 - Professor John Edmunds | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
10h45-11h00 - Professor Susan Michie | Professor of health psychology; director, University College London (UCL) Centre for Behaviour Change
11h00-11h20 - Break
11h20-11h35 - Dr Ifedayo Adetifa | Former director general, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
11h35-11h50 - Dr Els Torreele | Visiting fellow, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
11h50-12h05 - Professor Edith Patouillard | World Health Organisation department of health financing and economics
12h05-13h05 - Panel discussion | Chair: George Richards, director, Community Jameel
13h05-13h30 - Questions from the audience
In-person attendance only:
13h30-14h30 - Lunch
14h35-15h35 - Breakout sessions / workshop discussions
15h35-16h05 - Round-up
16h05-16h10 - Closing words
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