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SUMMARY:DISEASE X: Moving from Global Failure to Global Readiness
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DESCRIPTION:Join HCRI for this hybrid event with Kate Kelland\, Chief Sci
 entific Writer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (C
 EPI)\, discussing the themes of her book - DISEASE X.\n\nABOUT\n\nThe 20
 20–2023 pandemic exposed how unprepared the world was for a fast?moving 
 new pathogen.\n\nDespite decades of warning signs\, COVID?19 brought dea
 th and devastation to societies and economies because we simply were not
  ready.\n\nIn this talk\, journalist and author Kate Kelland draws on he
 r 2023 book DISEASE X to explore why that failure happened\, what nearly
  went right\, and how\, if the world gets the science\, policy and globa
 l cooperation right\, it could finally break the cycle of panic and negl
 ect.\n\nKate will also discuss the 100 Days Mission – a pandemic?busting
  plan to develop and deploy new vaccines against emerging disease threat
 s before they spiral out of control.\n\nFrom experimental vaccines produ
 ced in days to the systems still holding us back\, this is a story about
  speed\, equity and choice – and why the next Disease X pandemic threat 
 doesn’t have to be a repeat of the last.\n\nSPEAKER\n\nKate Kelland is a
 n author\, former award-winning health and science journalist\, and now 
 Chief Scientific Writer at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innov
 ations (CEPI). Until mid-2021\, Kate was a global health correspondent f
 or Reuters\, where she won multiple national and international journalis
 m awards over a 27-year reporting career.\n\nWhen she joined CEPI in Aug
 ust 2021\, Kate embarked on writing a book about pandemic preparedness a
 nd control. That book\, DISEASE X – The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemic
 s\, was published in hardback in the UK in February 2023 and is now avai
 lable internationally in a softback edition.\n\nPRACTICAL\n\n- This is a
  hybrid event: In-person attendance is in Ellen Wilkinson Building\; Onl
 ine attendance is via Zoom.\n\n- Registration is at: https://disease-x.e
 ventbrite.co.uk/\n\n- More on the hosts at: https://www.hcri.ac.uk/
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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