mortality impact of COVID-19

Webinar

"Challenges in interpreting the mortality impact of COVID-19"

The International Laboratory for Population and Health invites you to participate in the Webinar: "Challenges in interpreting the mortality impact of COVID-19". The webinar will be held on April 24 at 16:00 using Zoom.

Presenter: 

David A. Leon, Chief Research Fellow at the HSE University; Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Adjunct Professor at the UiT the Arctic University of Norway.

Abstract
In countries with complete vital registration mortality data can provide a crucial source of information about the trajectory and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic as well as an important measure of its impact on population health. In this seminar I will discuss two aspects of this issue, highlighting strengths of mortality analyses compared to those based on numbers of cases, as well as difficulties and challenges in interpreting mortality levels and trends both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, I will first present analyses of daily data published in the UK (as in many other countries) on the number of “COVID-19” deaths in hospital. While these data are perceived by the media, the public and politicians as a key indicator of progress or failure, they need careful and thoughtful analysis to be meaningful. I will then present a more conceptual approach to considering the range of influences on mortality population health that COVID-19 and the response that governments may have to it. These are made up of both direct and indirect effects, each of which may have different tempos and time frames over which they may have an influence. I will use data from England and Wales to suggest that negative indirect effects may already be substantial.


Working language: English
Time: April 24, at 16:00
Venue: online on the Zoom platform
Please, register via link
The day before the webinar, a link for a zoom conference will be sent to registered participants.
The number of places is limited: no more than 150 participants
If you have any problems with registration to the webinar, please email Vera Sokolovavsokolova@hse.ru:

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