Pandemics: Overcoming Covid-19 and preparing for the future

November 16th - 17th · CaixaResearch Conference · Online

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The global response to Covid-19 Pandemic has mobilized an unprecedented level of resources for research, leading to the development of effective vaccines in record time. However, this success has limitations, as no therapies have proven effective against the new virus and vaccination campaigns are facing global inequalities. Today more than ever, it is time to adopt a holistic approach to tackle this pandemic, covering biological, clinical, environmental and social issues, and to define strategies to fight global health threats.

 

The CaixaResearch Conference 'Overcoming Covid-19 and preparing for the future" (Nov 16-17, 2021) will foster discussion on available tools, current vaccines technologies and logistics to fight the current pandemic and other emerging infections, with the aim of improving preparedness and evidence-based decision-making.

 

This CaixaResearch Conference is co-organized by "la Caixa" Foundation and Biocat, lead by a Scientific Committee by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Center, centers funded by “la Caixa” Foundation

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Agenda

Tue 16
Wed 17
09:00
Event Streaming
09:30
Welcome
10:00
Plenary talk
10:45
Break
11:15
Session 1 - Developing Diagnostics and Therapeutics
12:15
Lunch
13:30
Session 2- Developing Vaccines
14:45
Round Table
15:30
Wrap-up
09:15
Event Streaming
09:30
Session 3- Zoonoses and One Health
10:30
Break
11:00
Session 4- Transforming Public Health
12:00
Lunch
14:00
Pitches session
15:00
Private meetings between projects, startups and investors

Speakers

Adolfo

García-Sastre

Professor

ISMMS

Àngel

Font

Corporate Director of Research and Health

"la Caixa" Foundation

Antoni

Plasència

Director

ISGlobal

Bonaventura

Clotet

Director

IrsiCaixa

Carmen

Cabezas

Secretary for Public Health

Government of Catalunya

Carolyn

Reynolds

Senior Associate

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Caterina

Guinovart

Associated Researcher

ISGlobal

César

Muñoz-Fontela

Head of Research Group

Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine

Clarissa

Simas

Research Fellow

LSHTM

Daniel

Prieto

Professor

University of Oxford

Denise

Naniche

Scientic Director

ISGlobal

Edna

Bosire

Post-Doctoral Scientist

Centre for Innovation in Global Health, Georgetown University, USA

Elia

Torroella

R&D and Regulatory Affairs Director

HIPRA

Jens

Lundgren

Professor

Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen

Julià

Blanco

Principal Investigator

IrsiCaixa

Júlia

Vergara-Alert

Principal Investigator

IRTA

Maria

Neira

Director Environment, Climate Change and Health

WHO

Mariano

Esteban

Head of Poxvirus and vaccines group

Centro Nacional de Biotecnología

Miguel

Luengo-Oroz

Chief Data Scientist

United Nations Global Pulse,

Nathalie

Strub-Wourgaft

Director of Neglected Tropical Diseases

DNDi

Núria

Martí

Innovation director

Biocat

Pilar

Puig-Sàrries

Innovation Project Manager

Biocat

Rachel

Lowe

Associate Professor & Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Richard

Kock

Professor

Royal Veterinary College

Robert

Fabregat

Chief Executive Officer

Biocat

Roger

Paredes

Principal Investigator

Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

Sergio

Carmona

Chief Medical Officer

FIND

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Scientific Committee

Pandemics: Overcoming Covid-19 and preparing for the future

CaixaResearch Conference 

Online Format - Activity free of charge

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