We hosted a webinar on 29 April 2020: ‘Where to from here? Charting a course for resilience and recovery‘.
The webinar featured Fellows and other experts from infectious diseases, epidemiology, intensive care, mental health and economics, who discussed what can we expect over the coming weeks and months, and considered how Australia can chart a course for resilience and recovery. If you missed it, you can watch the video here.
You can also read about it on news.com.au:
- Coronavirus Australia: Diseases expert rejects use of second wave term
- Coronavirus Australia: The decision that saved Australia from a COVID-19 death toll of thousands
For more information on the event, visit our events page.
Panel participants
Professor Sharon Lewin AO FAHMS
Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Professor Lewin is an infectious disease physician and basic scientist. The Doherty Institute, which she leads, is at the forefront of the research into COVID-19 and leads the work of the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergencies (APPRISE).
Associate Professor Kamalini Lokuge OAM
Lead, Humanitarian Health Research Initiative, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University
Professor Lokuge is a public health physician and medical epidemiologist. She is an expert in public health responses to humanitarian crises, and for the last 25 years, she has worked in the control of high-risk infectious diseases such as Ebola, Lassa fever and avian influenza.
Professor Warwick McKibbin AO FASSA
Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Professor McKibbin is an economist and has modelled the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, suggesting Australian GDP could fall by 3-5 per cent in 2020. He has previously modelled the impact of global outbreaks, including SARS and avian influenza.
Professor Steve Webb FAHMS
Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care, The Royal Perth Hospital and the University of Western Australia; Professor of Critical Care Research, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Professor Webb is working at the frontline in delivering intensive care for COVID-19 patients. His major research interests relate to the causes and management of immediately life-threatening illness, including influenza and pneumonia. He is a primary investigator on the REMAP-CAP study, a Randomised, Embedded, Multi-factorial, Adaptive Platform Trial for Community-Acquired Pneumonia, a study looking at COVID-19 that involves more than 50 facilities and 13 countries.
Professor Sir Simon Wessely FMedSci
Head, Department of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, King’s College London
Sir Simon joins us from the UK, where he is a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a leading authority on traumatic stress. He has analysed the psychological impacts of quarantine measures in response to the outbreak and is leading a webinar series on COVID-19 for the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK.
Panel chair
Professor Shitij Kapur FMedSci FAHMS
Assistant Vice Chancellor (Health) and Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne
Professor Kapur is a psychiatrist neuroscientist and has devoted his academic career to finding better treatments for Schizophrenia. His study of anti-psychotic drugs using brain imaging and clinical trials has helped understand why some patients respond while others get side-effects, and he has contributed to better dosing and timing of these medications. Professor Kapur has also served in important leadership roles in research institutions across the world, including Canada, the UK and Australia.