COVID inquiries Articles from IPPO

  1. IPPO Response to World Health Organisation’s Second Round of Public Hearings on Pandemic

    IPPO Response to World Health Organisation’s Second Round of Public Hearings on Pandemic

    Jeremy Williams Here at IPPO, we mobilise global knowledge to address the social impacts of Covid. The pandemic offers us an opportunity to reflect on how policies and interventions can mitigate against a catastrophe. We need to learn the lessons of Covid, both for future pandemics, and for the big, global challenges which are already looming large. To meet these challenges, we need to respond with policy which is both creative and informed by evidence. And to be prepared, we need to understand two things: which interventions work, and how we define...

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  2. To Learn the Lessons, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry Must Consider the Experiences of Migrants During the Pandemic 

    To Learn the Lessons, the COVID-19 Public Inquiry Must Consider the Experiences of Migrants During the Pandemic 

    Matteo Besana is the COVID-19 Advocacy Project Lead for Doctors of the World UK Matteo Besana Earlier in the year, the government published the draft Terms of Reference for the forthcoming public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic which will examine the UK Government’s response to the pandemic with the hope of learning the lessons from the pandemic and informing the government’s preparations for the future. Here at Doctors of the World we believe that key to this exercise, and to the work of the Inquiry, is to consider the experiences and the...

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