COVID 19: KNOWN UNKNOWNS - Testing

Join Dr Fiona Godlee of The BMJ and Professor George Davey Smith of Bristol University and the MRC, plus their invited guests from leading institutions in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, India, Hong Kong, Gabon and New Zealand, as they discuss many aspects of the covid pandemic.

Testing is seen as the key to helping slow the spread of the disease, but as one of our panelists has said it’s a “Wild West” - what do we know about what works as a testing strategy, and how certain can we be that the testing technology is able to support that.

Taking part are;
(Chair: Dominic Mellon, lead consultant in health protection, Public Health England South West)
Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics, University of Birmingham
Susan Hopkins, epidemiologist, infectious diseases consultant, University College London,
Ewan Birney, deputy director general, European Bioinformatics Institute
Margaret McCartney, general practitioner, Glasgow
Angela Raffle, honorary senior lecturer in social and community medicine, Bristol Medical School
Raj Bhopal, emeritus professor of public health, University of Edinburgh.
Caroline Relton, professor of epigenetic epidemiology, Bristol Medical School