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00:00:32 Welcome | Professor Cathie Sudlow

00:08:20 Introduction to Usher presentations | Chaired by Professor Linda Bauld

00:09:40 Backlogs, bottlenecks, and the uneven road to recovery: What NHS data reveals post-pandemic | Dr Ahmar Shah

00:15:30 Abortion care after Covid-19: Co-designing post-abortion contraception to address inequalities | Dr Nicola Boydell 

00:21:13 A long way from home: The impact of Covid-19 policies on refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland - a systematic review | Dr Gwenetta Curry 

00:26:49 Long Covid - breathless, exhausted, and life redefined: Evidence from national Long Covid studies | Dr Luke Daines

00:32:19 Q&A with Usher presenters | Chaired by Professor Linda Bauld

00:38:48 Introduction to Dr David Nash | Professor Julie Jacko

00:42:34 Keynote lecture - Post pandemic population health in the USA and beyond | Dr David B. Nash

01:45:26 Q&A with Dr David Nash | Chaired by Professor Julie Jacko

01:53:15 Vote of thanks and closing comments | Professor Cathie Sudlow


Keynote Lecture: Post pandemic population health in the USA and beyond

Dr David Nash reviews the impact of COVID19 on the health of the US population with a particular emphasis on the near collapse of the public health infrastructure, institutional racism, and a dramatic decrease in the quality and safety of the care provided.

He delineates the key factors responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million Americans and compare and contrast this outcome with many other nations in the western world. He thens describes the key tenets of population health and how shifting our paradigm to focus on education, prevention, and the reallocation of resources would save many lives in the next pandemic. Finally, he offers key insights about the future of global health in the context of new technologies, artificial intelligence, and innovation.

Photograph of Dr David B. Nash, guest speaker at the Usher Institute's Annual Lecture and Showcase 2025

David B. Nash, MD, MBA is a board-certified internist who is the Founding Dean Emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH) on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He remains on the full-time faculty at JCPH as the Dr Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and Medicine.

David is celebrating his 35th anniversary on the faculty and is best known for two major career contributions ‒ as one of the founders of both the movement to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, and to herald the advent of population health. 

David is the editor of the best-selling textbooks in both quality of care, and population health, and remains as the editor in chief of two scholarly journals including the American Journal of Medical Quality (AJMQ) and Population Health Management (PHM). He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and edited or written 25 books. His most recent book, How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care, is now in its third printing since publication in 2022.

David has received many national and international awards, he has received three honorary degrees, and lectured in more than a dozen countries around the world. 

He is an expert in both for profit and not for profit governance with 20 years of service as a hospital trustee (in two different systems) and ten years on the board of Humana.

He has been married for 45 years to Dr Esther J. Nash and they have three grown children and three grandchildren.


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