Our Recovery, and Where We Go From Here
The Pandemic Puzzle
Lessons from COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of deaths, threatened the health of billions, and upended every aspect of society. Its impact will reverberate for decades to come, but COVID-19 won’t be the last global health threat of its kind. What we do next to prepare is critical. Through this ambitious conference series, Stanford Medicine and Stanford Graduate School of Business convened leading experts—across government, business, and health care—to discuss the global pandemic response, lessons for our recovery, and how we can build resilience to current and future health threats.
Featured Speakers
Soumya Swaminathan, MD
Francis Collins, MD, PhD
Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH
Robert Redfield, MD
Andy Slavitt
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD
Janet Woodcock, MD
Sally Susman
Dean Li, MD, PhD
Melinda Richter
Kara Swisher
Loyce Pace, MPH
Kevin Ban, MD
David Rhew, MD
Charity Dean, MD, MPH&TM
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD
Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH
Steve Davis, JD
David Saunders, MEd
Megan Zweig
Pete Gaynor
David Entwistle
Bonnie Maldonado, MD
Ruth O’Hara, PhD
Doug Owens, MD
David Magnus, PhD
Alyce Adams, PhD
Milana Trounce, MD
Nigam Shah, PhD
Grace, Lee, MD, MPH
Brian Murphy, PhD
Nicole Cooper, DrPH, MPH
John Barry
Julia Hoffman, PsyD
Yasmeen Abutaleb
Rear Admiral John Polowczyk
Diedra Henry-Spires
Gabriel Weintraub, PhD
Amit Seru, PhD
Michele J. Gelfand, PhD
Chad Jones, PhD
Seungjin "Jin" Whang, PhD
Samantha Artiga
Sara Cody, MD
Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
K. “Vish” Viswanath, PhD
Anne McDonald Pritchett, PhD
Alex Tabarrok, PhD
Joanne Kenen
Denise Forte
Brad Smith
Ruth Ann Norton
Meg Tirrell
Drew Armstrong
4-Part Virtual Symposium Series
SESSION #1:
Responding to a Global Pandemic
Friday, September 17, 2021
8:30am - 12:00pm PT
Responding to an existential health threat demands unprecedented coordination – at all levels of government, across health care, and numerous sectors of the economy. At this virtual kickoff event, stakeholders from these groups explore the individual and intersecting roles of government and business during a pandemic. Through presentations, panels, and fireside chats, leaders at the helm of the pandemic response debate the effectiveness of various response strategies to COVID-19 and lessons for the future.
SESSION #2:
Building Toward Health Equity and an Inclusive Recovery
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
8:30am - 11:45am PT
SESSION #3:
Tracking and Mitigating a 21st Century Pandemic
Thursday, October 28, 2021
10:30am - 1:55pm PT
SESSION #4:
Agile Discovery and Innovation: Advancing Tomorrow’s Vaccines, Treatments, and Cures
Friday, November 19, 2021
8:30am - 10:30am PT
Backstage Pass Videos
Session 1
Backstage Pass: Finding the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel
Session 2
Backstage Pass: Ensuring we have an inclusive recovery from COVID-19
Session 3
Backstage Pass: How do we prepare for future pandemics?
Session 4
Backstage Pass: How do we build on the innovation from COVID-19?
Session 1
Vaccines’ historic success undermined by public health failures
Leaders and experts from government, academia, health care and business critiqued the U.S. and global response to the pandemic and assessed its lasting impact on the first day of “The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19.”
Session 2
With health equity, top-down answers won’t work, speakers say
In the second installment of “The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19,” leaders and experts from government, academia, health care and business said the road to health equity begins and ends in the underserved communities.
Session 2
Pandemic Puzzle: Health disparities and equitable recovery
Last week, the second event of the Pandemic Puzzle, a virtual symposium series that examines how the United States — and the world — responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, hosted experts who identified ways to better prepare for the next global disease crisis.
Session 3
Pandemic shows need to overhaul public health system, experts say
In the third installment of “The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19,” leaders and experts in government, academia, health care and business said the U.S. government must step up to build and coordinate a true, robust public health system.
Session 4
Pandemic sparked key innovations, experts say
In the final installment of “The Pandemic Puzzle: Lessons from COVID-19,” leaders in government, academia, health care and business said biomedical and digital health advances of the
last few years will help combat future health crises.