June 23, 2021

Online webinar

The Celsius Research Group at DCU presents Communicating Covid-19 - Trials, Challenges and Lessons, on Wednesday, 23 June at 7.30 PM via Zoom webinar and you are cordially invited to attend.

More than a year into COVID-19, it’s time to take stock and ask ourselves - what have we learned about the importance of communicating in a global pandemic? And who better to answer this question than world-renowned key players in disseminating information worldwide throughout COVID-19.

Not to be missed, this online event will be chaired by RTÉ broadcaster Philip Boucher Hayes. Hear from an international panel of leading scientists, pandemic communication experts and journalists as they discuss the challenges, lessons learned and ways forward for pandemic communication.

Our panelists include:

Jody Lanard - Former World Health Organisation (WHO) Senior Pandemic influenza Communications Advisor, Risk Communications Consultant and Co – Contributor to The Peter M. Sandman Risk Communications website.

Meg Tirrell - CNBC Senior Health & Science Reporter tracking public health emergencies from Ebola to Zika to the COVID-19 pandemic, and co-host of the STAT News podcast - "The Readout LOUD.’

Carl T Bergstrom - Professor of Theoretical and Evolutionary Biology, University of Washington, Seattle and co-author of a best-selling book on disinformation and misinformation, entitled, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World.

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz - Epidemiologist at University of Wollongong, Australia, with specialisation in chronic disease research, communicating uncertainty and public health. Meyerowitz-Katz is also a science writer at The Guardian and New York Observer.

Muge Çevik - Clinical lecturer and Physician who specialises in infectious diseases and medical virology at The University of St Andrew, Scotland. Cevik was an advisor to the WHO and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Scotland on COVID-19, and serves as a member of NERVETAG (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group) - an expert committee of the UK Department of Health.

Register now! Click here.

This is a free and live online event via Zoom. All our welcome and early registration is advised as places are limited.

For media inquiries and more information please contact Barbara Gormley.

Barbara Gormley is an Irish Research Council Scholar whose expertise is pandemic communications. She is a member of the Communications and Behavioural Science Committee that advises NPHET on COVID-19 responses and lectures on the MSc. in Science and Health Communication at DCU.