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Prevention in COVID-19 Time: from Failure to Future

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Fecha
10/07/2020
Hora
9:30 h (CEST)
Lugar
Webinar
(Online)
Ponentes
Prof Rodolfo Saracci, Dr Antoni Plasència, and Dr Neil Pearce

The COVID-19 pandemic has developed as a consequence of sheer prevention failures, leading in many countries to a sizeable number of deaths. Prevention remains not a constant priority, as the objective may be avoidance of saturation of intensive care beds or more generally of healthcare facilities rather than the minimisation of the disease incidence. This denotes a way of thinking in which prevention is an important option but not a guiding principle of choice and action within the health system. To modify this way of thinking and place prevention at the core of the system, non-negligible changes are required.

Prof. Rodolfo Saracci will give this webinar entitled "Prevention in COVID-19 time: from failure to future", on Friday July 10, at 9:30 h (CEST).

Discussants:

  • Antoni Plasència, Director, ISGlobal
  • Neil Pearce, Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

To connect to the seminar, you will have to enter a GoToMeeting session on the above-mentioned date. No password is needed.

 

Rodolfo Saracci

Rodolfo Saracci qualified as MD and subsequently as specialist in internal medicine and holds a postgraduate degree in medical statistics.

He has been the President of the International Epidemiologic Association (IEA). He is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. He is currently Senior Visiting Scientist at the IARC, emeritus Director of research in epidemiology at the National Research Council in Pisa and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the University of Aarhus. He was the founder and Director of the European Educational Programme in Epidemiology.

His main research and interests has been on cancers in relation to the general, domestic and occupational environment, interactions between carcinogens and methods of exposure assessment in the context of epidemiological studies"