Dr. Rana Hajjeh is taking over discussing “The critical role of data for better preparedness and response to epidemic: Lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic.” #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr. Rana Hajjeh: "COVID-19 highlighted the importance of strong data and health information systems that provides reliable, timely and actionable data." #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr. Rana Hajjeh discusses the COVID-19 deployment in EMR. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr. Rana Hajjeh: “One thing we struggled with over the years, is the timeliness of death reports”. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr Rana Hajjeh: "One challenge that WHO faced during the pandemic was insufficient resources and technical capacity for collecting, processing and modelling epidemiological data in the region." #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr. Rana Hajjeh ended her discussion by thanking all health workers around the world. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Maha Farhat, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Harvard Medical School is taking over the discussion. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Maha Farhat on “Pathogen sequencing revolutionizes surveillance of infections: Can we make it better?“ #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Mara Farhat: "Genomic sequences inform us of the relationship between pathogen strains." #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Maha Farhat is concluding by talking about data infrastructure and platforms. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Maha Farhat summarizing: “Pathogen whole genome sequencing can answer important questions relevant to public health and infectious disease management.” #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

The last presentation of the health session with Carla Talarico, senior director and lead epidemiologist at Moderna. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Carla Talarico talks about the use of real world data and bioinformatics to evaluate effectiveness of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and track SARS-CoV-2 variants. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Carla Talarico summarizing: “Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 sequence data enabled rapid development of pandemic vaccine.” #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Carla Talarico wrapping up: “Global and real-time sharing of SARS-CoV-2 spike sequences facilitates adaptation of COVID-19 vaccines.” #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Carla Talarico: “Genomic epidemiology is now easier and faster than ever before and is particularly useful in a pandemic setting.” #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

We are moving now to the panel discussion about Data, Big Data, Mega Data, and COVID-19. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

The panel discussion with Rana Hajjeh, Maha Farhat, Carla Tolarici, Carine Sakr and Mariette Awad is now LIVE! #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Souha Kanj wraps the panel by thanking all the speakers. #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021

Dr. Lama Moussawi wraps both sessions by thanking all the outstanding speakers, panelists, moderators, AUB, OSB, and WiDS team, committee, and moderators. Until next year! #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021