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Our two-day, four-part symposium featuring distinguished speakers including academics, clinicians, decision-makers, funders, and journalists, will provide an epidemiological perspective on this pressing issue, as well as exploring impact and innovation in health care services, ways to strengthen health systems, and global health research and policy. 

Programme Day 1 - 2 November 2021

11.00-12.30: Session 1 - The epidemiological perspective 

Chair: Professor David Leon, LSHTM

• 11.00-11.05: Welcome and introduction 
  • Speaker: , LSHTM
• 11.05-11.20: Factors associated with excess all-cause mortality in the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the UK  
  • Speaker: Dr Helen Strongman, LSHTM
• 11.20-11.35: New perspectives on international variations in seasonal excess deaths 
  • Speaker: Vladimir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 
• 11.35-11.50: Communicating numbers and risks during the pandemic: what are the lessons for the future?  
  •  Speaker: , The Guardian 
• 11.50-12.30: Panel discussion  

14.00-15.30: Session 2 - Impact and innovation in health care services  

Chair: Professor Ellen Nolte, LSHTM

• 14.00-14.15: Acute cardiac care during COVID-19: how services may change in the future    
  • Speaker: , Imperial College London
• 14.15-14.30: Creating Fast Track Surgical Hubs during the COVID-19 pandemic and what this means for the future
  • Speaker: , NHS
• 14.35-14.50: Indirect acute effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in the UK: a population-based study 
  • Speakers: Professor Sinéad Langan and Dr Alasdair Henderson, LSHTM   
• 14.50-15.30: Panel discussion  

Programme Day 2 – 3 November 2021  

11.00-12.30: Session 3 - Strengthening health systems  

Chair: Professor Tolib Mirzoev, LSHTM

• 11.00-11.05: Welcome and introduction 
  • Speaker: Dr Melanie Morris, LSHTM
• 11.05-11.20: Primary healthcare adaptations to NCD care in the COVID-19 era 
  • Speaker: , Primary Care International 
• 11.20-11.35: Impact of COVID-19 on health financing: implications for essential healthcare service delivery in Kenya 
  • Speaker: , KEMRI-Wellcome Trust 
• 11.35-11.50: The novel contribution of the private sector in a multi-sector response to COVID-19 in Nigeria, the challenges of coordination and transparency in managing financial and material resources and implications for vulnerable urban dwellers  
  • Speaker: , Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Nigeria 
• 11.50-12.30: Panel discussion 

14.00-15.30: Session 4 - Global health research and policy  

Chair: Professor Martin McKee, LSHTM

• 14.00-14.20: Has COVID-19 changed global research funding strategies? National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Global Alliance for Chronic Disease (GACD) strategies to support equity in global health funding 
  • Speakers: Dr Val Snewin, DHSC and Dr Morven Roberts, GACD 
• 14.20-14.35: How COVID-19 brought intellectual property regimes and access to medicines to the global health discussion 
  • Speaker: , Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL 
• 14.35-15.15: Panel discussion  
• 15.15-15.30: Final words with Professor Liam Smeeth, LSHTM

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