Pandemics: now and the future
Professor Roger Morris
Thursday, 21 April 2022 7:00pm
Wairarapa
Rosewood, 417 Queen Street, Kuripuni, Masterton
Annual General Meeting followed by Guest Speaker
Tea and Coffee from 7:00pm AGM 7:30pm Guest Speaker 8:00pm
World-renowned epidemiologist Professor Roger Morris will traverse a topic on everyone’s minds in 2022 - Pandemics: now and the future.
Professor Morris says: “Seen within the context of pandemics over the centuries, COVID-19 is far from the most catastrophic pandemic to affect the world. However, because we live in a world where the movement of people and goods is far more rapid than ever before, the COVID pandemic has unfolded and evolved far more rapidly than any previous pandemic.”
He notes that official data from countries substantially underestimates the actual severity of the pandemic at the global level, but a few countries have minimised its effects. “Among them,” he says, “New Zealand stands out as the most successful of all. There are some specific reasons why we used the same resources as other countries but did far better.”
Roger Morris will discuss the future of this pandemic and the possibility of future pandemics. Is the risk getting worse? Is it changing in nature?
Professor Morris has been involved in a wide range of national and global disease outbreaks and has contributed to disease control activities in over 50 countries. He has contributed to work on Ebola in West Africa, bird flu, mad cow disease, Mycoplasma Bovis in New Zealand, and now Covid-19.
He has trained Asian doctors, veterinarians and wildlife scientists from Afghanistan to Mongolia to work together to investigate and manage emerging diseases.
Annual General Meeting followed by Guest Speaker
Tea and Coffee from 7:00pm AGM 7:30pm Guest Speaker 8:00pm
World-renowned epidemiologist Professor Roger Morris will traverse a topic on everyone’s minds in 2022 - Pandemics: now and the future.
Professor Morris says: “Seen within the context of pandemics over the centuries, COVID-19 is far from the most catastrophic pandemic to affect the world. However, because we live in a world where the movement of people and goods is far more rapid than ever before, the COVID pandemic has unfolded and evolved far more rapidly than any previous pandemic.”
He notes that official data from countries substantially underestimates the actual severity of the pandemic at the global level, but a few countries have minimised its effects. “Among them,” he says, “New Zealand stands out as the most successful of all. There are some specific reasons why we used the same resources as other countries but did far better.”
Roger Morris will discuss the future of this pandemic and the possibility of future pandemics. Is the risk getting worse? Is it changing in nature?
Professor Morris has been involved in a wide range of national and global disease outbreaks and has contributed to disease control activities in over 50 countries. He has contributed to work on Ebola in West Africa, bird flu, mad cow disease, Mycoplasma Bovis in New Zealand, and now Covid-19.
He has trained Asian doctors, veterinarians and wildlife scientists from Afghanistan to Mongolia to work together to investigate and manage emerging diseases.
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