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It is generally accepted that Wuhan, China, was at the beginning of the transmission of Covid-19, but what does this mean for public health and for our understanding of the causes of the current pandemic and how to control it?

The China Debate, and parallel student-led research project, will explore these issues from three perspectives:Ìý

1. Global Health & the Pandemic in UK and China
2. TCM: Dangerous pleasures from the wet marketÌýor gentle home remedies?
3. ‘China’s Covid’ and renewed racist attacks against East Asians

TheÌýdebate will run in 'Question Time' fashion with questions collected in advance by our postagraduate students in the Health Humanities. The students have also been preparingÌýonline presentations on all the themes of the debate, and collecting and creating material for our microsite:Ìý
www.ucl.ac.uk/china-health/china-and-covid-19
To make the most of the discussions, please consult the resources on our microsite.

Provisional Programme

9.35am Ìý Introduction by Prof. (UCL, IAS) and Prof. (UCL, CCHH)

9.40am Ìý THEME 1: Global Health & the Pandemic in UK and China
Chair: Prof. Nicola Miller
Panellists: Prof. (UCL, IGH), Dr (Essex University), Prof. Sun Ji Ming (Zhejiang Province, Centre for Disease Control), Prof. Dame Ìý(UCL, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology)

10.45am Ìý Launch of ’s latest book The People’s Health (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020)

11amÌýÌýÌýTHEME 2: Dangerous pleasures from the wet market or gentle home remedies?
Chair: Prof. Vivienne LoÌý
Panellists: Dr Wang Xinyuan (UCL Anthropology), Prof. (University of Westminster), Yang Yi (PhD Candidate, UCL History), Prof. Michael Heinrich (UCL, Pharmacy) tbc.

11.45amÌýÌýÌýTHEME 3:ÌýChinese and East Asian communities’ experiences of Covid related racism in the UK
Panellists: Dr Lu Gram (UCL, IGH), (SOAS), and the campaign

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