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SUMMARY:Science\, evidence\, and government\; reflections on the covid-19 
 experience - Professor Neil Lawrence\, Professor Theresa M Marteau\, Profe
 ssor Sir David Spiegelhalter\, &amp\; Professor Anna Vignoles
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DTEND:20201110T190000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This high-profile event brings together four senior academics 
 from across the University of Cambridge who have all been advising policy 
 makers during the Covid-19 epidemic.\n\nThe speakers will draw on their ex
 tensive experience of advising and being consulted by policy-makers\, and 
 will reflect on some of the lessons\, debates and controversies associated
  with governmental responses to the pandemic. And they will consider what 
 this episode tells us about the relationship between science\, evidence an
 d public policy in times of crisis.\n\nOur speakers are:  \n\n* *Professor
  Neil Lawrence*\, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University
  of Cambridge\, Senior AI Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute\, visiting P
 rofessor at the University of Sheffield and the co-host of Talking Machine
 s.\n\n* *Professor Theresa M Marteau* DBE FMedSci\, Director of the Behavi
 our and Health Research Unit in the Clinical School at the University of C
 ambridge\, and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Scienc
 es at Christ’s College\, Cambridge.  \n\n* *Professor Sir David Spiegelh
 alter* FRS OBE\, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communic
 ation at the University of Cambridge.\n\n* *Professor Anna Vignoles* FBA C
 BE\, Faculty of Education and co Chair of the Centre for Data Driven Disco
 very at the University of Cambridge\, ESRC Council Member\, Trustee of the
  Nuffield Foundation and Fellow of the British Academy.\nChaired by Ehsan 
 Masood\, Editorials Editor & Bureau Chief for Africa and the Middle East\,
  Nature.\n\n*There will be time for Q&A towards the end of the online even
 t.*\n\n\n"BOOK YOUR PLACE":https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-evidence-a
 nd-government-reflections-on-the-covid-19-experience-tickets-118026599737 
 \n\n\nThis event is being hosted on Zoom. Registration is via "eventbrite.
 ":https://www.eventbrite.com/e/science-evidence-and-government-reflections
 -on-the-covid-19-experience-tickets-118026599737 \n\nIf the event is full 
 on Zoom\, we will also live stream on the "Bennett Institute YouTube chann
 el.":https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7UFhsRiaPy6evFQ7RVumcQ 
LOCATION:Online Event on Zoom
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