In conversation:

• Professor K. Srinath Reddy (President, Public Health Foundation of India)
• Marc Gordon (Head of Global Risk Analysis and Reporting, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction)
• Dr John Nkengasong (Director Africa Centres for Disease Control)
• Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith (Consultant to the WHO Immunization and Vaccination Department, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, LSHTM, and visiting Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore)

Facilitator: Professor Lisa Boden (Chair of Population Medicine and Veterinary Health Policy, Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh)

Held on 2 March 2021, the first event in the Edinburgh Futures Conversations series saw experts from around the world share their perspectives of the pandemic and explore how to change and reshape public health systems to transform outcomes.