2020 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting

The Forum: Engineering for Pandemics: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

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October
05
2020
12
30
PM
to
October
05
2020
02
30
PM
(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Virtual
The Forum: Engineering for Pandemics: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery


PLENARY SESSION AND TECHNICAL FORUM
October 4–5, 2020

 

Despite experiences with the 1918 flu and other, more recent diseases that spread quickly (e.g., SARS, AIDS, MERS), nearly everyone was caught unprepared by covid-19.

What lessons need to be learned to prepare effectively for future pandemics? Experience shows that they will surely occur, especially as the world gets “smaller” and more interconnected through travel and trade.

At this year’s NAE annual meeting, the following plenary speakers and technical forum panelists will offer their perspectives on such health scourges, their impacts, and the role of engineering in preparing for and addressing them.
 

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  • Moderator

Speeches
Lessons Learned: How to Prepare for Future Pandemics

Lessons Learned: How to Prepare for Future Pandemics? (e.g., testing, vaccines and therapeutics, ecology, engineering standards, AI & machine learning, logistics)

Fighting COVID-19 With Resilience - A Race Against Time

Pandemic Impacts on Society: Engineering’s Role (e.g., education [including the digital divide], impact of broadband infrastructure on communities [some better off than others], differential effects on vulnerable populations, economic impacts and impacts for the future of work)

Keeping Society's Transportation Systems Operational

Keeping Society’s Systems Operational: supply chains (e.g., food and essentials), electrical grid, broadcom/telecom systems, transportation, manufacturing (e.g., PPE, vaccines, therapeutics), and media.

Daniel Work
Daniel Work
Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University
The Future of Work: 15 Million New Jobs

Implications for the Future of Work (e.g., technology assistance, AI and machine learning, societal impacts, economic impacts)

Vaccine Pandemic Production & Scale-Up

Rapid Engineering of Critical Supplies: The Role of Advanced Manufacturing (e.g., direct manufacturing, including 3-D printing, of testing supplies, masks, face shields, gloves)

Charting Pathways Out of Poverty Before and During the Pandemic: Trends in acute multidimensional poverty across the developing world

Pandemics and Poverty (e.g., application of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index to population disparities during a pandemic)