Is the UK well prepared for a repeat of the 1918 influenza pandemic?

  • December 5, 2018
  • Dinner, Discussion
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Professor Chris Whitty CB FMedSci
Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care
Katharine Hammond
Director, Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office
Dr Andrew Coburn
Chief Scientist, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Professor Rachel McKendry
Director, i-sense and Professor of Biomedical Nanotechnology, London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Medicine, University College London [Panellist]

Astra Zeneca, Peter Jost Memorial Foundation

This discussion appeared in the FST journal below.

This issue of the Foundation's journal includes reports of debates on delivering the Paris Agreement, the risk of a flu pandemic and technology in support of the justice system and an editorial by Gavin Costigan.

Volume 22, Issue 5