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Online Course | Pandemic Problem-Solving: Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Pandemics

March 16, 2021 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

In this course, Dean Ashish Jha and Dr. Megan Ranney are joined by national experts to share frameworks and tools for civil servants, policymakers, and business leaders charged with addressing the unprecedented challenges of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

Learn from these leaders and work through essential problem sets with peers from other industries and public agencies. Equip yourself with the concepts and tools needed to mitigate the pandemic’s immediate impact on your work and industry, prepare your organization or community for a successful recovery, increase its resilience against future pandemics, and seize new opportunities for innovation and transformation provided by the pandemic.

Dates: February 16 to March 25, 2021
Days of the week: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Timing: 4:30 – 6 pm EST / 1:30 – 3 pm PST
Register before: Sunday, February 7, 2021

GUEST EXPERTS INCLUDE:
Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc, FACP, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Uché Blackstock, MD, Founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, and a Board-certified Emergency Medicine physician
Michael Mina, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Joan Donovan, PhD, Research Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

Scholarships are available on an as-needed basis, particularly for leaders serving the needs of vulnerable populations and disadvantaged communities.

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