Mandipa Ndlovu on WHO panel on the future of the pandemic

On 4 November 2021, ASCL PhD candidate Mandipa Ndlovu participated in a WHO high level panel that unpacked forecasted futures for the COVID-pandemic. The panel built on the work undertaken by Arup Foresight in collaboration with the World Health Organization, which developed four scenarios for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic in the next 3 to 5 years. This was the first of two roundtables that will be organised. The other speakers were: 

• Dr Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme
• Dr Renz Argao - Coordinator, Religions for Peace International Youth Committee
• Dr Andrea Hinwood - UNEP Chief Scientist
• Prof Alice Roberts - Anatomist and Anthropologist, Author and Broadcaster
• Mr Owen Tudor - Deputy General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

Moderator was Josef Hargrave, Director and Global Foresight Leader, Arup. 

Read the final WHO report Imagining the future of pandemics and epidemcs (2022) written on the basis of these panel conversations.

Watch the video of the roundtable: 

Date, time and location

04 November 2021