INGSA Global Week of Dialogue 2020 – Science Advice & COVID-19: What are we learning?
Online Conference
September 2020
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With Covid-19 affecting every aspect of life and governance, the pathways between science, policy and society were exposed and scrutinised like never before.
In Sept 2020, INGSA coordinated a global event to begin to look at how readily and effectively the world was using evidence to inform the pandemic response – the good, the bad, and the ugly
Keynote – Dr Soumya Swaminathan
INGSA is proud to present a Keynote discussion between the Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation, and Prof Rémi Quirion, the Chief Scientist of Québec.
Global High Level Panel
Featuring science advice luminaries from around the world, the High-Level Panel addressed some of the main challenges the global system of science and governance faced, and was one of the highlights of the week.
UN Special Roundtable – Science Advice & Multilateralism
INGSA is proud to present a Special Event Roundtable to discuss what the COVID-19 pandemic might mean for mechanisms of science advice and diplomacy in the UN and multilateral systems.
Asia / Oceania Regional Panel – Featuring:
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The Americas Regional Panel – Featuring:
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African Regional Panel – Featuring:
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European Regional Panel – Featuring:
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European Satellite Workshop – Science advice: what works in a crisis?
2020’s Covid-19 outbreak has shone the spotlight on science advice like never before. How well are Europe’s science advice frameworks standing up to this major stress test?
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Background
Background
In February 2020, as the astonishingly global repercussions of COVID-19 were beginning to be understood, INGSA acted decisively to set up a platform to collect, commission and curate material related to science advice on the pandemic, www.ingsa.org/covid. A key part of this platform has been the development of the INGSA Policy-Making Tracker, a unique tool that is helping us to understand the role and pathways of evidence in the various pandemic responses.
Never before have the interfaces between evidence, policy, and society – at which INGSA works – been more visible and more critical. We have seen dramatic, unprecedented shifts in the relationship between societies and science, between politics and evidence, and between society and their governments.
We have seen where pre-existing systems have failed, and where there have been unexpected excelled. COVID-19 has been a whole of humanity stress-test on a scale unlike anything within our global living memory. And lessons of COVID-19 need to be learned as the world faces a wide range of economic, technological and environmental challenges far beyond the coronavirus.
That is why INGSA ran the Global Week of Dialogue across time zones around the world, to start to pick apart some of the strands of what has happened – to shed light on real-time lessons that jurisdictions and the multi-lateral system can draw on to improve their potential for better outcomes in the immediate, medium and long term.
INGSA was proud to be able to convene such a diversity of voices from across the natural and social sciences and policymaking, including Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation, as Keynote for week.
A High-Level Panel will brought together global experts for a discussion that framed the week’s debate. Meanwhile, the LIVE Regional panels, had the task of contextualising and deepening the discussion for their regions. INGSA was also excited to be able to convene a special roundtable discussion on Science Advice and the United Nations, as well as providing space for a European Satellite event!
