The Science of Herd Immunity: How Does This Pandemic End?

Join a panel of experts as they explore how the COVID-19 pandemic might end, and what the new normality might look like – on 9 September 2021 at 06.00 PM AEST / 03.00 PM WIB.  In this webinar, the medical experts from Australia and the United Kingdom examine global modelling dynamics, immunology, rapid testing, genomic breakthrough, and the future of outbreak management.

Below are the panellists:

• Professor Mike Charleston, University of Tasmania (on what can epidemiological models tell us? Could co-infection be important?)
• Dr Erik Volz, Imperial College London (on variant detection and molecular epidemiology)
• Dr Andy Flies and Professor Guna Kurupiah, University of Tasmania (on herd immunity and vaccines)
• Professor Nicola Stephens, University of Tasmania (on outbreak management)
• Dr Louise Cooley, Director of Microbiology at the Royal Hobart Hospital (on contact tracing and testing in Tasmania)
• Moderated by Dr Nicholas Fountain-Jones, University of Tasmania