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As we move beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to examine thoughtfully both the health outcomes and policy decisions that shaped our collective response to the crisis. Structured around Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee's In COVID's Wake, this flagship event featured a fireside chat with the authors and panel discussions examining how scientific evidence, policy implementation, and public communication intersected during the pandemic.
These conversations aim to build mutual understanding among leading public health, science, and policy experts, identifying lessons that can strengthen our response to future public health challenges. This event is one part of a broader series of collaborations between Johns Hopkins University faculty and American Enterprise Institute scholars that seeks to foster constructive conversations across diverse perspectives and to root research and teaching with implications for the nation’s common life in a broad range of points of views.
As we move beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to examine thoughtfully both the health outcomes and policy decisions that shaped our collective response to the crisis. Structured around Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee's In COVID's Wake, this flagship event featured a fireside chat with the authors and panel discussions examining how scientific evidence, policy implementation, and public communication intersected during the pandemic.
These conversations aim to build mutual understanding among leading public health, science, and policy experts, identifying lessons that can strengthen our response to future public health challenges. This event is one part of a broader series of collaborations between Johns Hopkins University faculty and American Enterprise Institute scholars that seeks to foster constructive conversations across diverse perspectives and to root research and teaching with implications for the nation’s common life in a broad range of points of views.
