June 10, 2021
The mentality towards the way we share our personal data online is changing. We are becoming more educated about how organisations process and store the information we share. It could be argued that an air of naivety was attached to the way we would freely share sensitive information online, without questioning why we were being asked for it, or how it would be used. As we move forward on the Road to Bern and the prepare for the 2021 UN World Data Forum, it is worth exploring how data transparency is a vital, invaluable aspect to implement in an increasingly digital world.
December 1, 2020
Global and national health agencies do not always include older people in the way they develop, apply and interpret data. For much of the HIV pandemic, data were not collected for people aged 50 or more, based on the misguided view that older people were not at risk of infection. More recently, older people have been excluded from mortality reporting and from WHO targets for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease and diabetes, even though they are disproportionately at risk of dying from these conditions. Has this bias changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, given the strong association between old age and risk of death?
Thursday, 19th August 2021 , 9:00 to 10:00 am (ET)
June 24 2021, 9:00 – 10:15 AM (EDT)