Differences in public health approaches to control the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic could largely explain substantial variations in epidemiological indicators (such as incidence and mortality) across countries. COVID-19 revealed vulnerabilities in most Western countries’ healthcare systems in their response to the ongoing public health crisis.

The webinar will provide an overview on global epidemiological trends for the pandemic – including Qatar and the MENA region. It will also discuss the lack of rapid and timely community-centered approaches, and most importantly weak public health infrastructures, which might have resulted in a high number of infected cases and fatalities in many countries.

Speaker:

Dr. Saverio Stranges, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Western University, Canada
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