SHE at SUSTAINIT is pleased to welcome to this lecture on India by Professor Paul Kattuman at Ole Johan Dahls Hus, room 9460, University of Oslo. The event is in person only.
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India and Covid-19
COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected societies worldwide. Understanding how pandemic variables were forecast in a complex country like India, will hopefully provide insights into the application of data analysis, predictive modelling, and information management in the context of this large-scale public health crisis.
The importance of citizens initatives
There were strengths and limitations in the way data was collected and processed for policy formulation, resource allocation, and risk assessment. In that context, citizen science initiatives played key roles around digital platforms, data integration, remote collaboration in the epidemic information system. The collaboration between various stakeholders, including public health experts, policymakers and data scientists was relatively new territory in India.
Future crisis preparedness and response efforts should benefit from taking stock of challenges faced, strategies employed, lessons learned.
Discussion
After the lecture, researcher Tony Sandset will discuss the topic of the lecture with Professor Paul Kattuman.
About Paul Kattuman
Paul Kattuman is Professor of Economics at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He has held visiting Professorships at Université Paris 12, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and was a visiting Fellow at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and at Harvard Data Science Initiative in 2022. Paul was an economist in the Indian civil service prior to beginning his academic career. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has worked with Public Health England in the East of England, NHS Improvement East of England, and the Governments of Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Kerala states in India, contributing statistical analysis and forecasts to support COVID operations and management.
