The Social Sciences Centre for Health and Well-being and the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health organize an online symposium, focused on (understanding) the public's response to Covid-19 and what lessons can be learnt from this pandemic.
Behaviour
One of the great challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic is the large-scale behavioural change it requires to contain the virus. Insights from the social and behavioural sciences can provide important contributions regarding how to align human behaviour. In this symposium we discuss insights from this area: How do group processes help our understanding of public responses to the pandemic? What motivates (non)compliance to Covid-regulations? We then relate these insights to public policy: what lessons we can learn for the future from this pandemic regarding the use of scientific knowledge in crisis management? More broadly: which vulnerabilities in public health and governance does this crisis expose?
Program
| 11.00 | Opening Dr. Katherine Stroebe Director of Social Sciences Centre for Health and Well-being |
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| 11.15 | Prof. John Drury, University of Sussex How have the public responded to the Covid-19 pandemic? Understanding the role of group processes. |
| 11.45 | Dr. Pontus Leander, University of Groningen How does one study a pandemic in real-time? |
| 12.15 | Prof. Michel Dückers, University of Groningen, Nivel & ArqImpact Community engagement and decision-making during the Covid-19 pandemic - How the crisis exposed vulnerabilities in public health and governance |
| 12.40 | Panel discussion with the presenters |
| 13.00 | Closing |
