Watch the Thursday, April 29th, 2021 panel discussion exploring the issue of ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines. It raises awareness about the importance of vaccines to protect people of all ages and took place during the World Health Organization’s World Immunization Week, Pan-American Health Organization’s Vaccination Week in the Americas, and Canada’s National Immunization Awareness Week.
This event, co-hosted by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Institute for Pandemics and UNICEF Canada, was an opportunity to hear from leading human rights advocates, public health professionals and researchers, and to contribute to dialogue on this important area.
Watch the March 22, 2021, DLSPH special online event Reimagining Aging and Restoring Trust in the Wake of COVID-19, brought to you by the Boehm Lectures on Public Health and Healthcare in collaboration with the Institute for Pandemics. Watch the panel discuss topics and themes that are focused on aging and health, the standards and models of care as we age, healthcare worker burnout, the roles of families and caregivers, and many other issues and failures faced throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch the November 24, 2020, inaugural lecture of the Institute for Pandemics Lecture Series on Health Equity. Focused on racial health inequities in COVID-19 outcomes and highlighting the empirical evidence that has been accumulated thus far, this event explored how advocates and policymakers are taking up the evidence in real-time. The expert panel explored the data and other indicators and examined its implications for using policy and other strategies to dismantle structural, systemic racism.
