Governments globally have faced unprecedented challenges in responding to Covid-19. While they have managed to get some things right, delayed responses, insufficient test, track and trace programmes, contradictory messages, disinformation, and a sense of the economy being prioritised over public health, are some factors that may contribute to waning public confidence.
In this webinar, researchers from Brazil, China, Pakistan and the UK, will discuss the situation in these countries, and look at how the process of decision-making around public health has impacted state-citizen relations and institutional trust and what should be the priorities going forward.
Chair
- Shandana Khan Mohmand, IDS Fellow and convener of the Pakistan International Development Research and Mutual Learning Hub
Speakers
- Yi Cai – Lecturer and research fellow at Wuhan University Global Health Institute, China
- Ali Cheema – Director of the Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre (based at the Lahore University of Management Sciences), Pakistan. Founding member and current research fellow at the Center of Economic Research in Pakistan CERP and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS).
- Marcos Nobre – Professor of philosophy at Unicamp and Director of the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), Brazil
- Graham Smith – Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK
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