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) David R. Walt Harvard Medical School
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) Pam Cheng AstraZeneca
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 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) William B. Rouse McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
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) Paul McKenzie CSL Limited
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) Sabina Alkire Oxford