Save the date & Calls for Abstracts – Pandemic Centre’s International Conference 27th October 2023

The Pandemic Centre at the University of Bergen, Norway invites you to our International Conference “Long-Term Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Society” planned for the 27th of October 2023 in Bergen, Norway.

We are happy to share with you that we received confirmation from the first two key-note speakers:

  • Dr. Sylvie Briand, Director of the Pandemic and Epidemic diseases Department, WHO Director of the Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness (GIH), WHO Emergency Preparedness (WPE) at the WHO
  • Dr. Erica Charters, Professor of the Global History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK

Dr. Briand will be holding a talk on «Lesson learnt from COVID-19 for better preparedness for long health crisis” and Dr. Charters on “What can we learn from the end of a pandemic?”.

We have now launched the portal where researchers and contributors can send in their abstracts: Call for Abstracts: Long-Term Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Society | Pandemisenteret | UiB

The deadline for abstract submission is 21st August.

We also have a teasing page for the overall conference: Long-Term Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Society | Pandemisenteret | UiB .

We will add more information on the program as they come. The registration for the conference will start in August. This is for your reference and to engage researchers to send in abstracts.

In the week leading to the conference we also organize a PhD course of which you can read about here: Apply for the interdiciplinary PhD-course at the Pandemic Centre! | Pandemic Centre | UiB