The BBC World Service is the world’s largest international broadcaster. It broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world.

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BBC World Service

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Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and psychology lecturer. She is the presenter of ‘All in the Mind’ and ‘Mind Changers’ on BBC Radio 4, and ‘The Evidence’ and ‘Health Check’ on the BBC World Service.

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Claudia Hammond

Presenter

Sir Jeremy Farrar OBE FMedSci FRS is the Director of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges. 

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Jeremy Farrar

wellcome.org

Speaker

Professor Abdool Karim is a clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist who is widely recognised for his research contributions in HIV prevention and treatment. He is Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA).

Salim Abdool Karim

Dr Van Kerkhove is an infectious disease epidemiologist, specialising in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. She is the technical lead of the Covid-19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at the World Health Organization.

Maria Van Kerkhove

<p>A chance to hear about and talk about ideas with others.</p>

Discussion

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This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

This event will be delivered in British Sign Language, with an English language voiceover.

British Sign Language

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

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The Evidence

The Covid-19 Legacy

An edited recording of this past event is available on the BBC website with the programme title: 'How pandemics end'.

Join Claudia Hammond and guests to discuss what we might have learned and not learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Claudia will present the programme and interview the speakers. Then the audience will have the chance to ask questions. You can participate or just listen in. 

The event will be recorded live with an audience and edited into a programme to be broadcast on the BBC World Service as part of ‘The Evidence’ series. After broadcast, episodes of ‘The Evidence’ are available on the BBC website.

Join Claudia Hammond from the BBC and guests to discuss what we have and haven’t learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.

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