Sophia Schlette: The German Response to Covid-19 and What It Teaches Us
Monday, April 13, 2020
12-1:30 pm Eastern Time (US)
Zoom Webinar
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About the Event
Health expert Sophia Schlette will provide an overview about the policy responses, containment and mitigation measures taken in Germany to stop the Coronavirus from spreading since the first patient was diagnosed with Covid-19 in late January. It will be quite insightful to take a look at state level responses versus central level responses in a situation where still many unknowns exist. In an emergency situation, it is also interesting to look at the advisers, what was learned from international experiences, how the general public responded, what the impact has been so far and how the debate has begun to shift from a generalized lockdown with manifold unintended consequences to more focussed long-term measures of prevention and protection.
About the Speaker
Sophia Schlette, MPH Harvard, is a Berlin-based health policy analyst presently working as managing director at the German Association of Dermatologists. An expert in health policy innovation, governance, telemedicine, prevention, primary care, and integrated delivery systems, she has been advising executives in domestic key health care agencies such as the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) and the Ministry of Health. Her track record of international work includes two years with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, philanthropies, and international organizations. Sophia serves on AcademyHealth’s and the European Observatory’s international advisory boards. She draws much of her health systems knowledge management expertise from a global network of health policy researchers, the Health Systems and Policy Monitor, a group she initiated in 2002 and housed at WHO’s European Observatory since 2011. In her free time, she is assisting young unaccompanied refugees to cope with integration and administrative hurdles.
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