The Covid Pandemic: Lessons Learned?
VIEW EVENT DETAILSCoronavirus Updates: Facts from Hong Kong and Beyond
RUNDOWN
5:00 pm Registration
5:15 pm Opening Remarks
5:20 pm Dialogue
5:50 pm Q&A
6:00 pm Closing Remarks
6:05 - 7:00 pm Networking Drinks
HK$100/pax ASHK Member
HK$150/pax Non-Member
Three years ago, the first case of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) was confirmed in Hong Kong. Our community experienced dramatic shifts in the ways we worked, lived, and interacted. Now, as the last Covid restrictions fall, we are embarking on a new normal of life with Covid-19.
What are the lessons to be learned from Hong Kong’s, and the world’s, experience with the pandemic over the past three years? What did we do right, and what went wrong? Can we prevent the next pandemic, and are we better prepared after the experience with this one?
Asia Society Hong Kong Center has been proud to bring you regular updates on Hong Kong’s coronavirus story and its reverberations through the rest of the world, presenting public health experts, mental health professionals, and internationally renowned specialists with the latest facts and evidence-based findings regarding this pandemic. Over the past three years, we recorded 45 episodes and welcomed more than 250,000 online views for this groundbreaking series.
For the finale of this series, we are pleased to welcome back to ASHK Benjamin Cowling, Professor of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, for an in-person discussion and “farewell to Covid” reception. ASHK inaugurated this series with Professor Cowling in February 2020 and welcomed him again in February 2021 and February 2022 for anniversary discussions.S. Alice Mong, Executive Director of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, will moderate the discussion.
Professor Benjamin Cowling is the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health (HKU SPH), since 2013. He joined HKU SPH in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, Professor Cowling graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick in 2003 and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London. Professor Cowling is also co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at HKU SPH. Professor Cowling’s primary research focus is on infectious disease epidemiology. In recent years, he has designed and implemented large field studies of respiratory virus transmission in the community and the effectiveness and impact of control measures, including large vaccine trials. Professor Cowling's research aims to integrate information on transmission dynamics at the individual level with disease burden, severity, and dynamics at the population level. His latest research has focused on the modes of respiratory virus transmission, vaccination effectiveness, and the link between individual immunity and population immunity to infections. He has strong links with China CDC, and the NIGMS-funded Harvard Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Professor Cowling is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, an Associate Editor of Emerging Infectious Diseases. He has more than 650 peer-reviewed publications listed in Scopus. Professor Cowling has received numerous awards including a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2015), HKU Outstanding Researcher Award (2017), HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2011), and an RGC Senior Research Fellowship (2020).
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