PAST, PRESENT AND FUTUR OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC • LATIN AMERICA/ AFRICA

Friday, September 24th from 5pm to 6:30pm

Centre de Colloques, large auditorium

Carlos Álvarez is a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In 2020, he became the national coordinator and WHO referent for Covid-19 in Colombia, and participated in the drafting of the technical report “Lineamientos para el manejo clínico de pacientes con infección por nuevo coronavirus Covid-19” for the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection. His public health approach is open to the inclusion of environments at large.

Emmanuel Bonnet is a research director at the IRD,  a specialist regarding the questions of public health in Africa and a health geographer. He is currently a member of the URM PRODIG. He is currently in charge of an expertise that aims to better the medical care surrounding road accidents in Ouagadougou. Since the beginning of the pandemic he also hosts the website covid19afrique.com, that collects the pandemic data in African countries, along with the political measures and the vaccination. He collaborates with local networks in order to collect trustworthy and contextually appropriate data.

The following themes will be examined by the two speakers :
• Epidemiology (Who is monitoring? How? What is the reliability of the data? Spatiotemporal evolution of the pandemic),
• Governmental measures and management (Timing? What types of measures?),
• Scientific management (Scientific advice? What is their significance? What disciplines are involved?),
• Vaccination (Vaccintion strategy, timing, waves, contrats).

With the support of PRODIG UMR 8586
Debate moderated by Alexis Sierra (PRODIG – IRD)