WHO is pleased to invite you to Expanding our understanding of post COVID-19 condition webinar series: The evolving research landscape.
Much has been learned about post COVID-19 condition since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, significant gaps in our knowledge remain. WHO is committed to learning more about post COVID-19 condition by further characterizing the condition and understanding the latest research on its impact, management, rehabilitation and models of care.
This webinar will bring together a diverse group of experts from around the world to present a summary of the latest understanding of post COVID-19 condition, and the direction for future work in the area. The webinar will present a broad, high-level overview of a diverse range of topics on post COVID-19 condition.
Target audience:
- Clinicians, scientists and researchers
- Patients and carers of patients with post covid-19 condition and patient advocates
- Policy-makers and health care or hospital/unit managers
- Others working in the post COVID-19 condition space
The webinar will be held in English with interpretation in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
Please register in advance for this webinar here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar.
Speakers:
Dr Moussa Doumbia,
Dr Doumbia is a physician and experienced clinical researcher at the Centre Pour Les Vaccins En Developpement (Center for Vaccine Development), Mali. He has worked as a study coordinator on various projects and was Principal Investigator for the WHO Ebola Ring Vaccination in Guinea from 2015 to 2016.
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care, Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester. He is Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre; Director of the United Kingdom National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) East Midlands; Director of the Centre for Ethnic Health Research; and Director of The Real-World Evidence Unit. He leads a programme of work on cardiometabolic diseases and multimorbidity. He was recently appointed as Director of the first NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-Term Conditions and Co-lead for the Cross NIHR Collaboration for Multiple Long-Term Conditions. He is the national NIHR ARC Lead for Multimorbidity and leads the national training programme for multimorbidity. He led a programme of work during the COVID-19 pandemic and is a member of the United Kingdom Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and Chair of the SAGE Ethnicity Sub-panel. Named as top Type 2 diabetes researcher globally by Expertscape, he has published over 1200 peer-reviewed articles. He is Chair of the American Diabetes Association Therapeutic Inertia Initiative and currently a member of the KDIGO Diabetes and CKD Guidelines and of the ADA Standards of Care Guidelines for Diabetes. He has won numerous awards nationally and internationally and was awarded a CBE in the 2022 New Year Honours List for services to health.
Dr Diego Castanares, Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Dr Castanares is a physician specialized in internal and intensive care medicine and Associate Professor at the University of Namur (Belgium). His PhD thesis focused on the pathophysiology of heart failure during sepsis. From 2008 to 2020, he worked as an intensivist at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels), and as a postdoctoral researcher for the Fund for Scientific Research. Since 2020, he has been a health services research expert at the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre, where, in 2021, he worked on a project on post-COVID-19 condition, which aimed to provide information to Belgian policy-makers to aid in their decision-making process regarding health care organization. In addition, in 2022 he published a review on the pathophysiology of post COVID-19 condition.
Professor Jill Pell, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Professor Jill Pell is Henry Mechan Professor of Public Health and Head of the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was awarded a CBE in 2017 for services to public health research. She was a member of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 Advisory Group and is Principal Investigator of the Long-Covid in Scotland Study (Long-CISS).
Dr Ariel Izcovich, Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health and the Incident Management System for the response to COVID-19, Pan American Health Organization, Argentina
Dr Izcovich is a general internist at the Hospital Alemán. He is a researcher and methodologist focusing on evidence-based decision-making. He is Co-chair of the GRADE Southern Cone Network. He is a consultant in the Knowledge Translation Program, Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health and the Incident Management System for the response to COVID-19, Pan American Health Organization.
Dr Malachy Clancy, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, United States
Dr Clancy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr Clancy’s clinical and research expertise focus on cardiopulmonary disorders. He is Board Certified in Physical Rehabilitation by the American Occupational Therapy Association. He is actively involved in research related to COVID-19 including exploring functional trajectories and rehabilitation outcomes. He participated in the WHO Guideline Development Group for post COVID-19 condition.
Dr Clare Rayner, Member of the Society of Occupational Medicine Long Covid Taskforce, United Kingdom
Dr Rayner trained as a consultant physician in Occupational Medicine in England and worked across many sectors including transport, manufacturing, health, metals, chemical, construction, service and utilities. She is also an educator (trainer for the National Education Project for Health and Work; Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Manchester) and has been a communication skills trainer for nearly 30 years. She is a member of the WHO Guideline Development Group for Rehabilitation after COVID-19. With the United Kingdom Society of Occupational Medicine Long Covid Taskforce, she recently led on the position paper, Long Covid and Return to Work: What Works? and produced leaflets for workers and employers, translated into many languages. She is Public Involvement Lead on the NIHR LOCOMOTION research project, and has represented patient communities on the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and the NHS Long Covid Taskforce. With patient support charities, she has advocated for appropriate assessment and treatment of post COVID-19 condition and worked with the Department of Rehabilitation Innovation at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
Dr Arvind Kumar Singh, All India Institute of Medical Science, Bhubaneswar, India
Dr Singh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar. He has over 10 years’ experience in the field of public health education and research and has received awards including an epidemiological research grant from the Ford Foundation, a travel grant from the IN-DEPTH network and an AIDS Society of India Scholarship. His work and research interests focus on epidemiology and surveillance, HIV, mental health, immunization and SARS-CoV-2 infection. During the COVID-19 pandemic he was involved in various research and surveillance activities. He has published extensively in the field of public health, including 77 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He has been Co-investigator in more than 20 research projects. He is a member of the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine and the Indian Public Health Association, an expert committee member in the Department of Science and Technology for the Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists, a member of the Institutional Ethics Committee at the All India Institute of Medical Science, focal person at the regional institute for HIV surveillance and epidemiology, and resource person for various training programmes at regional and national level.
Katie Bach, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., United States
Katie Bach is an expert in job quality and low-wage work, and in recent years, has focused her scholarship on Long Covid and the workforce. In addition to holding an executive role at a leading corporation, Bach is Chairman of the Board of Directors at PolyBio Research Foundation, which investigates Long Covid, among other illnesses. Bach is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., where she researches Long Covid's economic impact. Bach has published numerous articles in JAMA (forthcoming), Harvard Business Review, Politico, Forbes, and elsewhere. Her research on Long Covid’s labor market impact has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, and more. Bach has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Master's Degree from the London School of Economics, and a BA from Oxford University.
Professor David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, University of Harvard, United States
David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and was named Harvard College Professor in 2014 until 2019. Professor Cutler holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health. Professor Cutler was associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences from 2003-2008. Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama as well as being Senior Health Care Advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Employee Benefit Research Institute. He advises many companies and groups on health care.
