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SUMMARY:Anniversary Reflections on COVID 19: Five Years Since Lockdown - S
 peaker to be confirmed
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DESCRIPTION:In early March 2020\, the World Health Organisation declared t
 he COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. On the 23rd March\, the UK went in
 to lockdown. Five years on\, a panel of experts in prominent roles during 
 the pandemic reflect on the experience from different perspectives\, how i
 t changed us\, and how we can use what we learned to inform future prepare
 dness.\n\nChaired by Sir Laurie Bristow*\, President of Hughes Hall\, the 
 panel includes:\n\n* Dr Rachel Clarke – Palliative care doctor\, former 
 journalist and author of Breathtaking\, an account of working inside the N
 HS during the UK’s first wave of Covid\, which was subsequently turned i
 nto the ITV series of the same name\n* Professor Deborah Prentice – Vice
  Chancellor\, University of Cambridge\, formerly Provost of Princeton Univ
 ersity during the pandemic\n* Professor Sir John Aston – Pro Vice Chance
 llor for Research and Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life\, Uni
 versity of Cambridge\, formerly Chief Science Advisor at the Home Office d
 uring the pandemic\n* Professor Ajith Parlikad – Professor of Asset Mana
 gement\, Institute for Manufacturing\, and Fellow of Hughes Hall\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge\, who worked closely with clinicians and the operations t
 eam at Addenbrooke’s during the pandemic to predict patient admissions\,
  model patient flows through the hospital\, and estimate subsequent demand
  for critical hospital resources.\n* Professor Tamsin Ford – Professor o
 f Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Department of Psychiatry\, U
 niversity of Cambridge\, and Fellow of Hughes Hall\, whose work has reveal
 ed the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young p
 eople\n* Professor Sander van der Linden – Professor of Social Psycholog
 y in Society\, Department of Psychology\, University of Cambridge\, who le
 d the project to develop Go Viral!\, a game developed by Cambridge psychol
 ogists in partnership with the UK Government\, that gives players a taste 
 of the techniques and motivations behind the spread of coronavirus misinfo
 rmation\, and author of Foolproof: Why we fall for misinformation and how 
 to build immunity\, and The Psychology of Misinformation
LOCATION:Pavilion Room\, Hughes Hall\, Cambridge CB1 2EW
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