Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conversation with Arnaud Fontanet
Meet current students from Harvard School of Public Health!
Date: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm CET
Where: Linklaters, 25 rue de Marignan, 75008 Paris
Who: Open to all members of the Harvard community and their guests
Cost: €25 for HCF members, €35 for guests and friends of Harvard, €20 for students.
The ticket price includes the conference and a cocktail.
Registration closes on June 16th at midnight.
We are thrilled to invite you to an enlightening event with Arnaud Fontanet, a leading epidemiologist and member of the Scientific Council set up to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Arnaud Fontanet will explore the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and identify key lessons to be learned from this crisis to better prepare for future pandemics.
Special guests will be attending this event! We will be joined by a dozen students from Harvard School of Public Health, who will be visiting us as part of their 2024 European networking trip. Come learn about pandemic preparedness, while interacting with the future generation of Harvard alumni and public health specialists!
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how devastating a pandemic can be when all conditions for the perfect storm are met. By the end of 2022, 27 million excess deaths had been registered worldwide, and the IMF has estimated the pandemic GDP loss at 12,500 billion dollars for the period 2020-2024. Through an analysis of the strategies followed by different countries across the world, we will discuss lessons to learn from this crisis so that we can be better prepared against future ones.
Arnaud Fontanet
Arnaud Fontanet is a medical epidemiologist (MD Paris V; MPH, DrPH, Harvard School of Public Health) specialized in infectious diseases epidemiology. In 2002, he joined Institut Pasteur in Paris to launch the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology unit. There, his focus has been on viral hepatitis and emerging viruses. In 2014, he was appointed as Director of the newly created Centre for Global Health at Institut Pasteur. Arnaud Fontanet is also Professor of Public Health at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where he is Director and co-founder of the Pasteur-Cnam School of Public Health and was named in 2018-19 Guest Public Health Professor at the Collège de France. In March 2020, he was appointed to Scientific Councils advising the French government and the EC President during the COVID-19 crisis.
Organized by
Salomé Garnier
Harvard College 2022
HCF Board Member
Date: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm CET
Where: Linklaters, 25 rue de Marignan, 75008 Paris
Who: Open to all members of the Harvard community and their guests
Cost: €25 for HCF members, €35 for guests and friends of Harvard, €20 for students.
The ticket price includes the conference and a cocktail.
Registration closes on June 16th at midnight.
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