Your questions answered: Professor Neil Ferguson on the current status of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak (15-02-2020). Together with Dr Ilaria Dorigatti and Dr Lucy Okell, he addresses the work of the team on estimated COVID-19 severity in Wuhan, amongst travellers and overall fatality ratio of infections.
Read all reports including estimates of epidemic size, transmissibility, severity and phylogenetics here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global...
The Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) brings together global health researchers in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. Drawing on Imperial’s expertise in data analytics, epidemiology and economics, J-IDEA improves our understanding of diseases and health emergencies in the most vulnerable populations across the globe. The Institute links governments, research institutions and communities to develop practical and effective long-term solutions, shape health policy and deliver better quality of life for all.
Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA)
Website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/JIDEA
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MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis
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Interviewee: Professor Neil Ferguson, Director of MRC GIDA, J-IDEA, Imperial College London
Interviewee: Dr Ilaria Dorigatti, Lecturer & Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Imperial College London
Interviewee: Dr Lucy Okell, Lecturer & Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Interviewer and Associate Producer: Sabine van Elsland, MRC GIDA, J-IDEA, Imperial College London
Producer: Katharina Hauck, Deputy Director of J-IDEA, Imperial College London
Associate Producer: Oliver Geffen Obregon, Digital Learning Hub, Imperial College London
Camera and Director: Tiago Melo, Digital Learning Hub
Camera Assistants: Justice Akushie Jr, Digital Learning Hub
Editor: Anne Marie Rützou Bruntse, Digital Learning Hub
Assistant editor: Tiziana Mangiaratti, Digital Learning Hub
