How can we avoid pandemic poverty in the future?

The Covid-19 pandemic was responsible for high but also highly varied mortality and illness, both of which also had major wellbeing consequences for affected individuals, households and communities.

Policy responses to the pandemic also severely disrupted economies and social life and all these together have led to substantial reversals in social and economic progress, especially for poor and vulnerable people in low- and middle-income countries.

In this official-side event at the UN’s 2023 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) organised by the IDS-hosted Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), we will explore countries’ different responses to these concerns, what mitigating measures were and can be taken in the future, and with what results, and how the WHO’s Pandemic Preparedness Treaty can take account of such needs and learning from the Covid-19 pandemic.

There will also be a Q&A towards the end of the webinar.

Resources

Chronic Poverty Report 2023: Pandemic Poverty

People’s Agenda on Pandemic Preparedness

Speakers

• Andrew Shepherd, Director, Chronic Poverty Advisory Network
• Dr Martha Reyes Alvarez, Minister of Health, Government of Nicaragua
• Dr N’Da Konan Michel Yao, Director of the Department of Strategic Health Operations, World Health Organization
• Dr Asif Mohammed Shahan, Senior Research Fellow, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development
• Bushra Ebadi, Research Associate, UN University EGOV
• Professor Toby Green, Professor, Kings College London
• Catherine Grant, Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies

Chair

• Peter Taylor, Director of Research, Institute of Development Studies

Mixed methods research and evaluation: addressing poverty and inequality in a complex, fast-changing world.

Undertaking mixed methods research and evaluations on complex issues can be challenging. So we’re pleased to announce that Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) is offering a specialist professional course on mixed methods research and evaluations on poverty and inequality.

Find out more about our new specialist short course