ICPS Special Briefing Series on COVID-19
26th March 2020, London, UK
Our ICPS Special Briefings on COVID-19 will provide a unique resource, taking place weekly as a series of webinars. It offers an opportunity for practitioners, civil servants and other key stakeholders to examine the resilience of the current framework for pandemic preparedness and explore key actions that need to be taken. The series will allow attendees to assess how well their organisation and local area is prepared and develop strategies to improve.
“There’s no other country in the world managing the pandemic in the same way,” Francois Balloux, Director of Genetics Institute, University College London, here highlights the UK’s sheer difference in approach to this global emergency. COVID-19 cases double around the world every four days and the toll climbs beyond 7,000 lives and the UK is now entering the escalation phase.
On the surface, the UK policy has eschewed social distancing measures, spurning the mass closures that have become commonplace throughout the world; instead opting for behavioural nudges – choosing a more restrained approach - reliant on coaxing and positive assertion.
4 Hours | On Demand
26th March 2020