The ResilientAfrica Network (RAN), Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) invites you to a Webinar entitled:
Innovating for the Emerging Pandemic Threats: A case-study of COVID-19 and other events
Date: Tuesday 7th April, 2020
Time: 3:00pm to 4.00pm East African Time
Background:
Pandemics are increasingly becoming one of the most important global threats of our time. Since the year 2000, the world has faced a variety of events including SARS (2003), H1N1 (2009), MERS (2012 and 2015), Zika (2015), Ebola in West Africa (2014) and DRC (2018). The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in terms of its effects at the global level. Emergency situations, despite their great strain on society, provide a fertile opportunity for innovation and learning for resilience. The scale with which the new pandemic threats are disrupting livelihoods requires increasingly innovative approaches to their prevention, surveillance, preparedness and response. This Webinar focuses on how we can leverage the learnings from contemporary pandemic threats to propel innovation. It explores how Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking Tools can be applied to innovating our response to emerging pandemic threats, using case-studies from recent events in the Africa region and beyond. It reflects on novel tools and platforms that can be harnessed to drive such innovation. It introduces the concept of ‘Innovating Complexity’.
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