Society for Medical Decision Making

COVID-19 – The Role of Science in Public Health Decision Making, Dealing with Multiple Tradeoffs Managing a Crisis- Preparing for Future Pandemics

Welcome - Natasha Stout, SMDM President, Beate Jahn, SMDM Vice President and Meeting Chair, Silke Siebert, Meeting Chair, Uwe Siebert, Meeting Chair, Tobias Kurth, Meeting Chair

Keynote - COVID-19 – The Role of Science in Public Health Decision Making, Dealing with Multiple Tradeoffs Managing a Crisis- Preparing for Future Pandemics by Andrea Ammon, MD, MPH, Director at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden

Video - David Nabarro, Senior Advisor, Food Systems Summit Dialogues, Strategic Director at 4SD Switzerland and Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID-19, Switzerland

Future Preparedness for Outbreaks, Epidemics and Pandemics

Michelle Kelly-Irving, PhD, Director EQUITY research team, Epidemiology and Public Health, CERPOP (UMR1295); Director - IFERISS - Interdisciplinary Federal Institute for Research on Health & Society University of Toulouse, France

Herwig Ostermann, PhD, Executive Director of the Austrian National Public Health Institute (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH, GÖG), Austria

Siobhán O'Sullivan, PhD, Chief Bioethics Officer in the Department of Health and Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics and Law at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Interactive Workshop: Risk Communication, Communicating Science to Non-Scientists

Danielle Timmermans, PhD, Professor in Public Health Risk Communication, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, The Netherlands

Andreas Slettholm, Aftenposten, Journalist, Norway

Ashley Housten, OTD, MSCI, Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, United States of America