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Preparing Scotland for the Next Global Health Challenge: Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic

Preparing Scotland for the Next Global Health Challenge: Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic

Future Global Shocks
Date: Monday 03 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Venue: Bute Hall, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Michael Russell and Jeanne Freeman, former Scottish Government Cabinet Secretaries
Website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-global-shocks-series-tickets-418100448697

This lecture series aims to consider what more we must do as a society to prepare our systems and networks, as well as policy and system relationships, to respond with resilience to the major global challenges we face: from economic crises and an aging population; to future health pandemics and protecting human rights.

Each 90-minute event will bring together prominent experts to give their perspective on the global shocks and what they have learnt in their respective fields. 

Each event will follow a similar format with the 15-minute presentations followed by a 45 minute Q&A to be chaired by former Scottish Government Cabinet Secretaries Jeane Freeman and Michael Russell, which will facilitate discussion and potentially inform future policy development. 

Our first event is Preparing Scotland for the Next Global Health Challenge: Lessons Learnt from the Pandemic.

It is presented in partnership with the Campaign for Social Sciences and forms part of the ARCADIA festival

It will feature contributions from:

  • Professor Linda Bauld OBE, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health at The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh and Chief Social Policy Adviser for the Scottish Government
  • Professor Peter Duncan Donnelly, Chair in Public Health and Director of the Sir James Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis at the University of St Andrews
  • Professor Iain McInnes CBE, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Muirhead Chair of Medicine and Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Glasgow.

A brief introduction to the Global Shock Series will also be given by:

  • Jeane Freeman OBE, former Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport in the Scottish Governmen
  • Professor Michael Russell, former Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations of Scotland in the Scottish Government
  • Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow

This is a hybrid event with in-person and online attendance options available. 

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