All are invited to the MRC Epidemiology Seminar:

Learning from Covid-19: Why elimination should be the default strategy for future pandemics

Professor Michael Baker, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

This hybrid seminar will be held in the MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Level 3, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, and online.

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About this talk

The conclusion of this presentation is that ‘elimination’ should be the default response for emerging pandemics of sufficient severity where this goal is considered feasible.

This discussion will draw on the experience of New Zealand (NZ) and other jurisdiction in the Asia-Pacific region which took an elimination, rather than a suppression or mitigation response, to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will discuss the benefits and costs of this strategy versus the alternatives.

The World Health Organisation could implement this approach by assigning a response strategy when it declares a new Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

About Professor Baker

Dr Michael Baker is a public health physician and Professor of Public Health at the University of Otago, Wellington, NZ. He is a member of the NZ Government’s Covid-19 Technical Advisory Group.

Michael was a leading advocate for the elimination strategy in NZ. He is an active researcher on the pandemic and principal investigator for the Covid-19 Research Collaborative (Co-Search).

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