Anniversary Reflections on COVID 19: Five Years Since Lockdown

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• Thursday 20 February 2025, 18:00-19:30
• Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW.

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In early March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the COVID -19 outbreak a global pandemic. On the 23rd March, the UK went into lockdown. Five years on, a panel of experts in prominent roles during the pandemic reflect on the experience from different perspectives, how it changed us, and how we can use what we learned to inform future preparedness.

Chaired by Sir Laurie Bristow*, President of Hughes Hall, the panel includes:

• Dr Rachel Clarke – Palliative care doctor, former journalist and author of Breathtaking, an account of working inside the NHS during the UK’s first wave of Covid, which was subsequently turned into the ITV series of the same name
• Professor Deborah Prentice – Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, formerly Provost of Princeton University during the pandemic
• Professor Sir John Aston – Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life, University of Cambridge, formerly Chief Science Advisor at the Home Office during the pandemic
• Professor Ajith Parlikad – Professor of Asset Management, Institute for Manufacturing, and Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, who worked closely with clinicians and the operations team at Addenbrooke’s during the pandemic to predict patient admissions, model patient flows through the hospital, and estimate subsequent demand for critical hospital resources.
• Professor Tamsin Ford – Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Hughes Hall, whose work has revealed the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young people
• Professor Sander van der Linden – Professor of Social Psychology in Society, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, who led the project to develop Go Viral!, a game developed by Cambridge psychologists in partnership with the UK Government, that gives players a taste of the techniques and motivations behind the spread of coronavirus misinformation, and author of Foolproof: Why we fall for misinformation and how to build immunity, and The Psychology of Misinformation

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