Workshop: Lesson learned from swine flu for behavioural and social scientists: how should we study the next pandemic?
Monday 12th April 2010, Wellcome Trust Euston Road, London.
A one-day workshop organized by the infectious Disease Network with support from the Health Protection Agency, University College London, and Kings College London. The unprecedented national emergency respionse to the Swine Flu (A/H1N1) pandemic during 2009 was accompanied by a substantial research effort to understand how the outbreak affected the British population and to test ways of reducing this impact. The challenges of conducting this research were considerable, but the results brought immediate public health benefits as well as advances in our understanding of human behaviour.
This workshop will bring together researchers from different disciplines within the social sciences in order to identify ways that we could do better in the next pandemic.
What key issues should behavioural and social scientists explore the next time around? How could researchers from different disciplines work together more effectively? How should funding be made available? How do you obtain ethics approval in a hurry?
This one-day workshop wil explore all of these topics and allow participants the chance to share their experiences and suggest ways for improvement. The workshop will be of relevance to a multi-disciplinary audience, but especially researchers from any behavioural or social science discipline with an interest in this area.
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