The Pandemic Centre invites to its third conference with the title “Long-Term Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Society” on the 27th of October 2023 in Bergen, Norway.

More info here.

We are happy to share with you that we received confirmation from the first two key-not speakers:

• Dr. Sylvie Briand, Director of the Pandemic and Epidemic diseases Department, WHO Director of the Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness (GIH), WHO Emergency Preparedness (WPE) at the WHO
• Dr. Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Dr. Briand will be holding a talk on “Lesson learnt from COVID-19 for better preparedness for long health crisis” and Dr. Charters on “What can we learn from the end of a pandemic?”.

We have now launched the portal where researchers and contributors can send in their abstracts: https://www.uib.no/pandemi/163375/call-abstracts-long-term-consequences-covid-19-pandemic-society

The deadline for abstract submission is 21st August.

We also have a teasing page for the overall conference here: https://www.uib.no/pandemi/163420/long-term-consequences-covid-19-pandemic-society . We will add more information on the program as they come. The registration for the conference will start in August. This is for your reference and to engage researchers to send in abstracts.

In the week leading to the conference we also organize a PhD course of which you can read about here: https://www.uib.no/en/pandemic/162897/apply-interdiciplinary-phd-course-pandemic-centre