Thursday 1st November 2018
UCL Engineering Building, Roberts LT G08
6.00 - 9.00pm
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Background:˙Recent health emergencies - including the SARS, Zika and Ebola outbreaks, and the Haiti and Nepal˙earthquakes - have unnecessarily taken thousands lives and cost the global economy billions. These˙events have shown the limits of current health systems; capacity and communities resilience to˙respond to emergencies at local, national and international levels. The Centre will bring˙together experts from UCL and external stakeholders, leading on˙interdisciplinary research, training and policy advice to improve global health through community˙engagement using mobile technology, and strengthen emergency preparedness and rapid response˙by real-time data˙modeling analytics and early warning systems.
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Key Focus Areas:˙Public health interventions and disaster risk reduction (DRR) using mobile technologies˙|˙Serious games and digital storytelling for health education and behaviour change˙|˙Citizens science, participatory surveillance and crowdsourcing for early warning systems˙|˙IoT/sensors, big data modelling and machine learning, data science-driven preparedness and˙response to emergencies˙|˙Infectious diseases and public health education and community engagement˙|˙Infection control and antimicrobial stewardship decision support˙|˙Maternal and neonatal health and women empowerment before, during and after disasters
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LAUNCH˙EVENT PROGRAMME:
* 6pm- Opening by Prof. David Price (UCL VP Research)
* 6.05pm- Prof. Peter Sammonds (UCL IRDR)
* 6.10pm- Dr. Patty Kostkova (UCL IRDR Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies)
* 6.15pm:˙Keynote speech by Prof. Virginia Murray (Global Disaster and Risk, Public Health England)
* 6.30pm:˙Panel discussion with Prof. Ibrahim Abubakar (UCL Institute for Global Health), Prof. Virginia Murray (Public Health England), Prof. Julio Davila (UCL Development Planning Unit),˙Prof.˙Muki Haklay (UCL Extreme Citizen Science),˙Prof. Kate Jones (UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research)˙
* 7.30pm:˙Closing remarks by Prof. David Lomas (UCL VP Health) followed by networking drinks reception in the Roberts Foyer˙