Cities on the Frontline: Resilient Health Systems: Covid-19 Year 3
When
Mar 10, 2022
Time
08:00 AM
Where
Online
On 11 March 2020 the Covid-19 crisis was declared a global pandemic by the WHO. We are now at Year 3 of living with the virus continuing to circulate in our communities with hopeful signs that it will become endemic, less virulent with greater immunity among the global population. Cities health systems have had to adapt navigating the enormous pressure exerted through the ups and downs of this crisis and the cascading impacts.
At this point in the pandemic, we take a moment to hear from leading city and state health experts on what it takes to build a resilient health system. Cities are thinking about and planning for the future with an endemic Covid-19, how is this effort taking into account co-benefits in particular to climate related shocks and stresses like heat and floods and water borne diseases. We will hear how the aims of sustaining a healthy and resilient population are underlining future planning and policymaking.
The fourth session of Cities on the Frontline Speaker Series in 2022 is jointly organized by Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank.
Featured Speakers
We will be joined by Eric Friedlander, Secretary of Health and Family Services, State of Kentucky and Family Services, State of Kentucky, Dr. Natacha Berkowitz, Epidemiologist for City Health, City of Cape Town, and Dr. Jeannette Ickovics, Professor and former Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS College.
Cities on the Frontline is a virtual thought leadership speaker series. The series, which began in 2020 co-organized by the Resilient Cities Network and the World Bank Group’s City Resilience Program, provides city practitioners and the industries and residents that they support, an understanding and means for responding to the pandemic and associated stresses, as well as solutions for planning towards a more resilient recovery.
Questions about the Speaker’s Series, additional registration requests, or related items can be directed to media@resilientcitiesnetwork.org