Name: Dr. Ahmed Ogwell Ouma
Institution: Deputy Director at Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Speciality: expertise in how government policy can and should respond to neglected health challenges

Date: 30 Sept.
Time: 9:25-9:45

Title: Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic – successes and challenges
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Dr. Ahmed OGWELL OUMA is an accomplished international civil servant and an expert in global health for over 25 years. He has worked globally for public health and has overseen implementation of numerous health policies in countries in Africa. Learn more.

Twitter: @laktarr001

Name: Prof Linfa Wang
Institution: Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Speciality: zoonotic diseases, bat immunology and pathogen discovery

Date: 30 Sept.
Time: 10:05-10:25

Title: The SARS-CoV-2 virus
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Wang played a leading role in identifying bats as the natural host of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus. His research then extended from bat-borne viruses to better understand virus-bat interaction and how bats co-exist with a large number of viruses without developing clinical diseases. His recent research contributions include developing antibody based serological tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak, and the early and successful culture of the virus from an infected patents sample. Learn more.

Name: Dr Melanie Saville
Institution: Director of Vaccine Research & Development, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI)
Speciality: physician specialized in virology

Date: 30 Sept.
Time: 11:05-11:20

Title: Unprecedented investment and speed in the response to COVID-19 and moving towards a 100-day ambition
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Dr Saville leads a technical team who have oversight of the CEPI funded vaccines in development. She has contributed to the development and licensure of several vaccines for seasonal and pandemic influenza, paediatric combinations, Rabies, Japanese Encephalitis and Dengue vaccine in Europe, US and internationally. Learn more.

Name: Dr Erica Charters
Institution: Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Speciality: history of war, disease, and bodies, particularly in the British and French empires, and How Epidemics End

Date: 30 Sept.
Time: 17:02-17:42

Title: How do epidemics end?
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Charters is interested in global approaches to history, both for research and teaching. Since disease was the biggest threat to manpower in the early modern world, she considers how disease environments – throughout the world – shaped military, commercial, and agricultural power, as well as how overseas experiences shaped European theories of medicine, biology, and race alongside political methodologies such as statistics and censuses. Learn more from her Oxford website, and from her blog.

Twitter: @EricaCharters