Health Systems Shocks: What we are learning about resilience in the Covid-19 crisis

Date
27 May 2020
Time
16:00 - 17:30, GMT+1 – BST

The LSHTM-Charité Global Health Lecture Series brings together leading scientists from the UK, Germany and further afield to present cutting-edge research on pressing global health issues and to discuss the implications of their work for policy and practice.

Prof Dame Anne Mills, Deputy Director and Provost at LSHTM, Prof Reinhard Busse, Head of Department, Health care management at Technische Universität Berlin, and Dr Edwine Barasa, Nairobi Director, the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Nairobi programme will provide an overview of health systems research, discuss what is known about the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on health systems in different countries and explore what we are learning about health systems resilience. Dr Mickey Chopra, Global Solutions Lead for Service Delivery, World Bank, will moderate the event, providing reflections on the policy context for health systems in light of the current pandemic.