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 aims to convene 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.

Started 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.  A YouTube playlist of previous sessions can be found here.

Building upon the first season, the Speaker Series launched a second season in 2024 under the theme of “Protecting the World: Moving Rapidly Together” to explore how to better protect the world from future health emergencies through more rapid and collaborative approaches. The Speaker Series Season II aims to highlight emerging opportunities, common challenges, communities of practices, and key learnings along the journey, from the perspectives of a wide range of experts and practitioners both within and beyond the health sector, to strengthen our collective preparedness for future health emergences.