U21 Health Sciences Group Public Health Webinar
What can we learn from national Covid-19 control policies?
Hear from our panel of Public Health experts from across the network addressing how different national Covid-19 control policies have been designed, implemented, and discussed.
The aim of the webinar is to give staff and students across the network unique insights from public health scholars in how different countries have chosen their paths in tackling the pandemic – sometimes similar and sometimes different.
Host
Associate Professor, Martin Stafstrom, Lund University
Chair of the U21 HSG Public Health Discipline Group
Martin Stafström is an associate professor and senior lecturer in Public Health at Lund University. Working in the Division of Social Medicine and Global Health at the Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö. He is the programme director for this institution’s master program in public health, a role he has had since 2015. His research interests can be summarized into two parallel fields – both in relation to health policy implementation. First, community-based health promotion – with a specific focus on children’s, adolescents’ and young adults’ alcohol use and mental health. Second, inequalities and health outcomes in different contexts. His research has been and is currently conducted in Sweden, Africa, Asia, Latin America and even on the high seas.
Panelists
Associate Professor Yihan Lu, Fudan University
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Fudan University School of Public Health and Fudan Global Health Institute, and Vice Chair of Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health
Dr Yihan Lu currently serves as the Assistant to the Dean, responsible for international collaboration and foreign affairs. Dr. Lu graduated with a PhD of Epidemiology and Health Statistics at Fudan University in China (2009) and completed the postdoctoral program at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the USA (2012).
During 2016-2017, Dr. Lu was a fellow of Afya Bora Fellowship in Global Health Leadership with the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington and Kenyatta National Hospital at the University of Nairobi. His research interests cover molecular epidemiology, zoonosis, and vaccination strategy. So far, he has been funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Science and Technology Major Project of China.
Martha Chadyiwa, University of Johannesburg
Lecturer & Coordinator, Master of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health
Martha is a lecturer and coordinator on the Masters of Public Health. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Health from Zimbabwe, and an MBA in Environmental and Energy Management from The Netherlands.
She is currently a PhD candidate in Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She has vast experience in lecturing and implementing management programmes in Environmental and Occupational Health.
Dr Carla Perotta, University College Dublin
MD MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Dr Carla Perrotta MD MPH, PhD is an assistant Professor at the School of Public Health, University College Dublin, Ireland. She coordinates and teaches the modules on Knowledge Synthesis, Health technology Assessment, International Health in Action and principles of Health Economics to postgraduate and undergraduate students.
She has a background in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine working in Public Health and primary care for the last fifteen years.
She has contributed to a wide range of Public Health Programs and Primary Care implementation programs in South America; from Mother and Child Health to Environmental Health, and Non-communicable Diseases tailored programs financed by UNICEF, World Bank and the Ibero-American Bank Fund.
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Alvarez, McMaster University
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Research Methods
Elizabeth Alvarez is an experienced family/public health physician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University. After completing her medical degree and family medicine residency at the University of Toledo in Ohio, she earned a master’s degree in public health through the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health, and a PhD in Health Policy at McMaster University. She also holds a certificate in cognitive behavioural therapy (CMCBT).
Her research uses policy analysis and qualitative and mixed methods for applied knowledge translation, spanning the role of context in evidence informed decision making, public health topics, sustainable health behaviour change across the lifespan, and multidisciplinary care.
Dr Bernard Hope Taderera, University of Johannesburg
Senior Lecturer of Public Health, Coordinator of Research in the online Master of Public Health Programme, Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences
Bernard is an Early Career Interdisciplinary Researcher holding a PhD in Public Health (Health Policy and Management Track) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa from where he graduated in September 2016. He is an Alumni of the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (ADDRF 2016-17) awarded by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC).
His doctoral study has so far generated seven first-authored articles published in top-rated ISI accredited refereed journals, and several conference papers. He is also a reviewer for top-rated research journals which include the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, Health Policy and Management, Public Health (Biomed Central), Globalisation and Health (Biomed Central), and Health Services Research (Biomed Central). Dr Bernard Taderera is interested in research focusing on Health Policy and Management, Human Resources for Health Reform Policy, HRH Decision Space Analysis and Health System Strengthening.
Jade Khalife, MD, MPH, MSc
Jade has a background in medicine, health policy and management, and epidemiology. He has been involved in health advocacy and activities on non-communicable diseases since 17 years, and in health systems since 12 years.
His primary current role is as coordinator for a collaborative project on hospital performance in Lebanon, between the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health and Lund University, funded by the UK Joint Health Systems Research Initiative.
He has been involved in advising health authorities in Lebanon regarding the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020.