Anna Dominiczak Attends Rhodes Policy Summit
Published: 4 May 2023
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak attends Rhodes Policy summit: Creating a positive legacy from the pandemic. The event was on the 14th of April 2023 in Covent Garden in London.
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak recently attended the Rhodes Policy summit: Creating a positive legacy from the pandemic. The event was on the 14th of April 2023 in Covent Garden in London.
The summit was a debate about how we use the lessons of COVID-19 to bolster our defenses against future pandemic threats. With public and political interest in preparedness at risk, the inaugural Rhodes Policy summit will ask how we can ensure we have equitable and practical measures in place to prepare us for the next global health crisis.
The aim of the summit was to set out an ‘Always On’ approach to pandemic preparedness: where global health architecture is developed that can be used for routine healthcare delivery and when responding to the next pandemic. This includes developing capacities for digital infrastructure, vaccination, surveillance and manufacturing that could pivot between use for pandemics and during peacetime.
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak was moderating a panel on developing solutions: What does an always on approach look like? The panel included Dr David Agus (Founding Director and CEO, The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine), Professor Prabhat Jha (Professor of Global Health, University of Toronto) and Dr Lynda Stuart (Vice President of Infectious Diseases, BioNTech).
There were also speeches from Hala Audi (CEO, Unzima), John Bell (Alberta and Magdalen 1975, Regis professor of medicine, University of Oxford), Tony Blair ( Executive Chairman, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Sergio Camona (Chief Medical Office, FIND).
First published: 4 May 2023