Covid-19: Reopening -- Public Health and the Economy

Date: 

Thursday, June 11, 2020, 12:30pm to 2:00pm

This event is virtual. Please view the livestream here when the event begins. 

Speakers: Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Joseph Allen, Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Judyth Twigg, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Commonwealth University; Karl Lauterbach, Professor of Health Economics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne; Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning, MIT Sloan School of Management

As global economies gradually reopen, how are governments balancing economic recovery with concerns for public health? This event brings together scholars from economics, public health, and political science to discuss how different regions of the globe are approaching the complex demands of reopening.

Presented in collaboration with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesLakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, and the China Health Partnership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.

 

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