Course Access
Please see below an invitation to attend a symposium on Tuesday, 1 March, Lessons learnt from COVID: Guiding pandemic preparedness and response, presented by the Australian Institute of Infectious Disease, and supported by the Australian-French Association for French and Australian Research.
The event will feature keynotes from two Nobel Laureates:
- Professor Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Emeritus Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Emeritus Director of Research at the Inserm – Lessons from HIV: strengths and weaknesses in the response to COVID-19
- Professor Peter Doherty, Patron and namesake of the Doherty Institute – The challenges of science communications in COVID times
In addition:
- The Victorian Minister for Innovation, Medical Research and the Digital Economy, the Honourable Jaala Pulford, will provide the welcome address
- Professor Sharon Lewin, Director of the Doherty Institute, will speak to “Looking to the future: lessons learnt and new global approaches”
- Professor Brendan Crabb, CEO and Director of the Burnet Institute, will provide the summation and closing remarks
- Professors Barre-Sinoussi, Doherty, Lewin and Crabb will participate in an interactive panel discussion titled: “Are we ready for the next pandemic?”
- Plus a full program of speakers – final program will be distributed on Monday morning.
Registration is free via this link.
