The Lancet Commission: Report on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic
11:00 - 11:05am | Welcome
Dr. Jessamy Bagenal, Executive Editor, The Lancet
11:05 - 11:20am | Presentation of Key Findings and Recommendations of the COVID-19 Commission Final Report
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Chair, Lancet COVID-19 Commission
11:20 - 11:40am | Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO
11:40am - 12:00pm | Key impacts and learnings from the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of India
- Financial and economic implications of pandemic response measures: Dr. Vitor Gaspar, Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF
- Socioeconomic and other implications for populations experiencing vulnerability: Ms. Gabriela Cuevas Barron, Honorary President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and Former Senator in the Mexican Congress
12:00 - 12:20pm | Global and national governance for future health threats
- Global health governance: Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Former President of the UNGA and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense in Ecuador
- Achieving the SDGs and ensuring a green and inclusive recovery: Dr. Phoebe Koundouri, Professor in Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business and Denmark Technical University; President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- Strengthening national health systems, national preparedness plans, and universal health care: Dr. Miriam Khamadi Were, The Champions for an AIDS-Free Generation, Kenya
12:20 - 12:30pm | Concluding Remarks
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Chair, Lancet COVID-19 Commission
Further Readings:
1) Commission Report:
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the
future from the COVID-19 pandemic
Jeffrey D Sachs, Salim S Abdool Karim, Lara Aknin, Joseph Allen,
Kirsten Brosbøl, Francesca Colombo, et al.
The Lancet, Vol.
400, No. 10359
Published: September 14, 2022
2) Lancet Editorial:
COVID-19:
The Case for Prosociality
The Lancet
The
Lancet, Vol. 400, No. 10359
Published: September 14,
2022
3) COMMISSION STATEMENT
Lancet
COVID-19 Commission Statement on the occasion of the 75th session of the UN
General Assembly
The Lancet COVID-19 Commissioners, Task Force Chairs, and Commission
Secretariat, and others
The Lancet, Vol. 396, No. 10257
Published: September 14, 2020
4) COMMENT
Priorities
for the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2021: statement of the Lancet
COVID-19 Commission
Commissioners of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, and others
The Lancet, Vol. 397, No. 10278
Published: February 12, 2021