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Periscope Conference

LSE Commission for Pandemic Governance and Inequalities 

This was a public panel event to share findings from the LSE Commission for Pandemic Governance and Inequalities. This is part of the Europe-wide Horizon-2020 PERISCOPE project, a cross-disciplinary study on the socioeconomic impact of Covid-19 and pandemic preparedness.

Periscope

Monday 5 June 2023, LSE.

This public panel event hosted at LSE was an opportunity for cross-disciplinary reflection on the experiences, challenges and opportunities of Covid-19 governance, to inform engaged discussion and ideas for future pandemics.

The event consolidated findings from a three-part commission involving key community leaders, policymakers and young people from across the UK and Europe. The commission is focused is on inequalities related to Covid-19 governance, with the aim of producing collaborative recommendations on how to ameliorate these inequalities in the present, and how to build a new model of pandemic governance in the future.

The event on 5 June brought together of practitioners, policymakers and academics to discuss lessons learned during Covid-19 for pandemic governance and preparedness. 

The programme was structured around key themes related to local, national and global levels of pandemic governance, such as public health responses to Covid-19, evidence and data in decision-making, and the role of carers and social infrastructures. 

The full programme can be view here and you can learn more about the event by reading the . 

 

Programme

Time

Panel event

Chair

 09.30 

 Registration and coffee

 

 10.00 

 Professor Laura Bear (LSE)

 10.30

First panel sessions

 

 

Trust Lab

Dr Elizabeth Storer (LSE)

 

Professor Tim Allen (LSE)

 11.45 

Second panel sessions

 

 

Isaac Stanley (LSE)

 

Professor Andrea Renda (CEPS)

 13.00

 Lunch

 

 

Lunchtime 'brown-bag' session | 

Dr Melis Mevsimler (Ada Lovelace Institute)

 14.00

Third panel sessions

 

 

Anne Bowers (London Borough of Newham)

 

Dr Matteo Galizzi (LSE)

 15.15

Break 

 

 15.30

Fourth panel sessions

 

 

Professor Laura Bear (LSE)

 

Dr.Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung (CEPS)

 17.00 

Fourth sessions

 

 

Epidemics, one health and the environment

Professor Walter Osika (Karolinska Institute)

 

 

Professor Anne West (LSE)

 17.30

Plenary session |

Rose Dowling (Leaders Unlocked)

 18.30

Drinks reception