WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Speaker Series
Co-hosted by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence (“WHO Hub”) and the Charité Center for Global Health, the Speaker Series is a regular event series, with in-person and digital elements targeting public health communities in Berlin, Germany and globally. The series convenes multidisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around challenges and emerging opportunities in global pandemic preparedness and response that stem from the complex nature of public health emergencies.
Launched in 2022, the first season of the Speaker Series was themed around “Complexity of Pandemics” and convened six sessions to unpack the complexity of pandemics from the perspectives of human, animal and planetary health, social sciences, innovative technologies, data preparedness, open source, and climate change. The second season, launched in 2024 under the theme of “Protecting the World: Moving Rapidly Together”, explored how to protect the world from future health emergencies by leveraging diversity, contextual insights, the role of research, genomic data, artificial intelligence, as well as bridging research and practice. A YouTube playlist of previous sessions can be found here.
A new season of the Speaker Series was launched in 2026, focusing on “From Insight to Impact: Transforming Public Health Intelligence”. Season 3 explores how data, insights, and innovation in public health intelligence can transform preparedness systems, strengthen decision-making, and drive impact at the country, regional, and global levels. It aims to highlight advances in surveillance capabilities, threat detection platforms, research, analytics and simulations, as well as AI, data and digital foundations, all driving actionable, system-wide, and lasting transformation in pandemic and epidemic preparedness.
The 13th session of our Speaker Series
Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response Capabilities for National Public Health Agencies
took place on 26 March 2026.
Past events