Indigenous Peoples & Pandemics Pre-Meeting Workshop
We have designed the pre-meeting workshop for the purpose of fostering communication and building networks among indigenous participants in the conference, who have been drawn from countries and ethnic groups all over the world.
The workshop will be held from 9:30 AM to 3 PM on Saturday, 13 May. The morning session is intended to provide an informal (no slides) opportunity for all participants to provide an introduction to who they are and health-related issues that they think are especially important in their home culture. Following a buffet lunch, the afternoon session will focus on discussion of potential strategies and policies that might help to address the issues brought up in the morning session. Insights from this workshop will be discussed further among all meeting participants in the panel discussion, “Moving from pandemic science to policy”, to be held at the end of the meeting.