Tackling Coronavirus: Prevention, Surveillance, and Response

Carnegie India organized a workshop to examine the source of the infection, evaluate its relationship with other pre-existing coronaviruses, assess its potential to become a pandemic, and discuss India’s capacity to prepare and respond to such infections.

Watch Gagandeep Kang deliver opening remarks, following which the first session provided an introduction to the origin and nature of this coronavirus. This was facilitated by G. Arunkumar and chaired by Shruti Sharma.

Watch the second session, which featured a panel discussion on building a robust public health system with Shahid Jameel and Gautam Menon. This discussion was chaired by Chitra Pattabiraman.