WS 09 - Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Global Health

COVID-19 has sparked a lively societal discourse about the relationship between science and policy in numerous countries affected and on a global level. The session examines the role and contributions of different research disciplines (virology, intensive care medicine, epidemiology, sociology, economy, ethics, etc.) at different stages of the pandemic as well as the different types of evidence that researchers provide and politicians and authorities base their decision on (e.g. individual publications and reviews). It furthermore sheds light on different models of research- policy relationships and mutual influence.