The UNCOVER Conference showcased the results of rapid reviews conducted by UNCOVER volunteers in response to requests from policy-makers during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Keynote presentations were given by Professor Linda Bauld, Professor Aziz Sheikh, Dr Ignazio Maria Viola and Dr Nikki Brink. Each session included a welcome and keynote followed by two presentations discussing the completed rapid reviews, with Q&A opportunities. On Day 3, the Q&A was slightly shorter to allow for the final item of the programme, a conversation with the director of Public Health of Guernsey, which benefited from UNCOVER input. Full programme details and links to recordings of the three sessions are available below. Conference Programme Day 1: Schools and Ethnicity Tuesday 15th September 12:00-13:30 Schedule Talk Speaker(s) 12:00 Welcome and introduction to Keynote Professor Evropi Theodoratou, Personal chair in Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health 12:10 Keynote: Behavioural science during a pandemic - what have we learned? Professor Linda Bauld, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health 12:30 Q&A 12:40 Schools Review Introduced by Dr Amir Kirolos, Public Health Speciality Registrar & Honorary Clinical Fellow and presented by Wei Xu and Zhongyu Lang, Research Assistant and MPH student Zhongyu Lang's LinkedIn profile 12:55 Q&A 13:05 Ethnicity Review Introduced by Dr Gwenetta Curry, Lecturer of Race, Ethnicity, and Health and presented by Kayla Ostrishko and Dr Prerna Krishan, MPH students Dr Prerna Krishan's LinkedIn profile 13:20 Q&A 13:30 Close Recording of the day 1 session - available via YouTube Day 2: Facemasks and Indoor/Outdoor Transmission Wednesday 16th September 12:00-13:30 Schedule Talk Speaker(s) 12:00 Welcome and introduction to Keynote Professor Harry Campbell, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health 12:10 Keynote: Respiratory droplet dispersion and how face coverings mitigate virus transmission risk Dr Ignazio Maria Viola, Reader at the Institute for Energy Systems 12:30 Introduction to reviews Dr Ruth McQuillan, Co-Director MPH 12:40 Facemasks Review Miranda Pierre and Ambika Narain, MPH students Miranda Pierre's LinkedIn profile 12:55 Q&A 13:05 Indoor/Outdoor Transmissions Lara Goodwin, Toneka Hayward and Rima Nundy, MPH students Lara Goodwin's LinkedIn profile 13:20 Q&A 13:30 Close Recording of day 2 session - available via YouTube Day 3: Transmission and Policy Thursday 17th September 12:00-13:30 Schedule Talk Speaker(s) 12:00 Welcome and introduction to Keynote Professor Harish Nair, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health 12:10 Keynote - Responding to the needs of policymakers in the context of a public health emergency Professor Aziz Sheikh (OBE, FRSE, FMedSci), Chair of Primary Care Research and Development. Director of the Usher Institute 12:30 Risk factors for poor outcome in hospitalised Covid 19 patients Dr Thulani Ashcroft (MPH student) and Izzie Dighero (MBChB student) Dr Thulani Ashcroft's ResearchGate profile 12:50 Reproduction Rate Review Dr You Li (Leo), Research Fellow 13:10 Dr Nikki Brink, Guernsey’s Director of Public Health in conversation with UNCOVER’s Manager Emilie McSwiggan Recording of day 3 session - available via YouTube If you have any questions regarding the conference please contact the UNCOVER administration team. This article was published on 2024-09-24
