Invitation
Conversation with Prof. Ben Cowling on the latest COVID-19 developments
Date: Thursday, 24 February 2022 Time: 7pm (HKT)
The Consulate General of Switzerland, with the Swiss Association of Hong Kong and Swisscham Hong Kong are pleased to invite you to a talk by internationally renowned epidemiologist Prof. Ben Cowling of the Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health. He will give us insights into his Covid-19 related studies and how the situation with the 5th wave may unfold in Hong Kong.
The Event will be moderated by Rolf Frei, Consul General of Switzerland.
Prof. Ben Cowling
Prof. Cowling joined the School of Public Health at HKU in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2003, and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London (UK). Prof Cowling has been the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2013, he is responsible for teaching introductory modules in epidemiology and biostatistics on the MPH curriculum, and his primary research focus is in infectious disease epidemiology. Prof Cowling is a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at HKU SPH. In 2015 he was awarded a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship for his work on influenza virus epidemiology.
Read more about Benjamin Cowling here.
Registration Registratino is free for members and non-members and shall be done through the official SAHK event page. The webinar invitation will be sent to you after you sign up.
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