In conversation:
- Professor Shannon Vallor (Baillie Gifford Chair and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures, Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh)
- The Honorable Dr Keith Martin MD (Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global health (CUGH))
- Dr Mark Hyman (Head of Strategy and Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and Board President of Clinical Affairs at the Institute for Functional Medicine)
- Mandeep Dhaliwal (Director: HIV, Health & Development Group United Nations Development Programme)
Facilitator: Lord Nigel Crisp (Co-chair All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, co-chair Nursing Now, former Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health)
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.