A Four-Part Series on COVID-19,
Our Recovery, and Where We Go From Here

Join leaders and experts from government, business, and health care as we examine the global response to COVID-19 and look to the future of pandemic planning.

Free Registration

Each of the four virtual, half-day sessions will feature presentations, panels, and fireside chats that you can attend for free online.

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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 will convene 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. Read our press release.

Featured Speakers

More speakers to be announced soon.

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 half-day, virtual kickoff event, stakeholders from these groups will 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 will 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

Black and Latinx Americans are three times as likely to become infected with COVID-19 and twice as likely to die from it as White Americans. It is a damning statistic – one that underscores the stark and life-threatening inequities that minority groups and vulnerable populations continue to endure not only in the U.S. but globally. This half-day session will explore how future pandemic responses must address socioeconomic and health disparities to prevent the same tragic outcomes witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Critically, the conversation will also focus on developing solutions upstream to achieve a healthier, more equitable, and just society.

SESSION #3:
Tracking and Mitigating a 21^st Century Pandemic

Thursday, October 28, 2021
10:30am - 1:55pm PT

H1N1. MERS. Ebola. SARS-CoV-2. Infectious disease outbreaks have struck with alarming frequency throughout the start of the 21st Century – and will continue to do so. As we contend with COVID-19, how can we prepare for, and possibly prevent, the next pandemic? This half-day session will convene leading epidemiologists, technologists, public health advocates, and government leaders to discuss how to improve and modernize critical elements of any global response – including public health interventions, data systems, surveillance technologies, supply chains, and strategic stockpiles – to blunt the impact of emerging infectious diseases.

SESSION #4:
Agile Discovery and Innovation: Advancing Tomorrow’s Vaccines, Treatments, and Cures

Friday, November 19, 2021
8:30am - 10:30am PT

COVID-19 vaccines will forever stand as a milestone scientific achievement. The speed of their development and astonishing efficacy have opened eyes and doors that will shape the future of biomedicine. The final, half-day session of this symposium series will explore how to build on this watershed moment – from bold R&D investment to regulatory science – to enable agile medicine, advance therapeutics, and leverage the full potential of cutting-edge platforms deployed during the pandemic and those yet to be discovered.

A Message from Our Deans

“The scale of COVID-19 and its challenges is unlike anything we’ve endured in our lifetimes. It is critically important that we learn from this experience to bring the pandemic under control and ensure we are ready for future threats.”

Lloyd B. Minor, MD

Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine

"The pandemic affected virtually every sector of the economy. As the world continues to deal with this historic crisis, we must apply what we've learned to chart a better future for business and society."

Jonathan Levin, PhD

Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business

FAQs

How do I access this virtual event?

We will be live streaming the event. Using your computer or smart device, you can return to this webpage on the date and time of the event, where you will find the live event video feed. You will not need to download any software.

IS THE EVENT SMARTPHONE OR TABLET FRIENDLY?

Yes, the event is optimized for viewing on laptops, tablets, and smartphones. While the event can be viewed on any device, we recommend joining from a computer for optimal viewing.

I CAN ONLY ATTEND A PORTION OF THE PROGRAM, IS THAT OKAY?

Yes, you are welcome to join the program at any point. If you miss portions of the event, we invite you to revisit the website after the event to view session recordings.

WHAT DO I DO IF I NEED TO MAKE CHANGES TO MY REGISTRATION?

Please email events@stanfordhealthcare.org with any questions.

If you are no longer able to attend the event, you do not need to change your registration status.

CAN I BRING A GUEST?

If you plan to have a guest attend with you, and they will be physically with you sharing one device (e.g. laptop or tablet), there is no need to register additional participants. However, if you would like to join from different devices or will not be in the same location, we ask that you register individually using the “REGISTER NOW” button.

Yes, we appreciate your sharing this event with those who may be interested. Invite them to register here: REGISTER

HOW LONG WILL THE EVENT LAST?

Each session will last approximately three and a half hours.

WILL THE EVENT BE RECORDED?

Yes, the event will be recorded and posted to the event website.

The Pandemic Puzzle

Lessons from COVID-19

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

Kara Swisher

Loyce Pace, MPH

Kevin Ban, MD

Charity Dean, MD, MPH&TM

Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD

Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH

Steve Davis, JD

David Saunders, MEd

Pete Gaynor

Bonnie Maldonado, MD

Doug Owens, MD

David Magnus, PhD

Alyce Adams, PhD

Milana Trounce, MD

Nigam Shah, PhD

Brian Murphy, PhD

Nicole Cooper, DrPH, MPH

John Barry

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

SESSION #2: Building Toward Health Equity and an Inclusive Recovery