The Politics of Pandemic Information and Health Emergency Decision-making: Lessons and Prospects

The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong

168 Victoria Road, Mount Davis

Hong Kong

The COVID-19 pandemic is a generation-defining event of global significance. In this talk, Dali L. Yang, the William C. Reavis Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago, draws on his recent book on China's emergency response to the COVID-19 outbreak to examine the factors that have affected health emergency decision-making and hence the scale and scope of the outbreak. The focus of the study is on how epidemic information was processed or ignored, the cognitive framework that limited understanding of the virus's contagiousness and affected the quality of decisions, as well as the lessons to be drawn and prospects for reforms and capacity enhancement.

Speaker

Dali Yang

William Claude Reavis Professor

Department of Political Science

The University of Chicago 

In-person Event

Program

6:15 – 6:30 pm   Registration

6:30 – 8:00 pm   Talk by Professor Dali Yang

8:00 pm               Event ends

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