AHF Webinar Panel Discussion – Long COVID: An Emerging Global Health Crisis

Tuesday, August 27, 11:00 a.m. EDT – Miami, USA, via Zoom

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), in collaboration with the University of Miami Public Health Policy Lab, will cohost a webinar, "Long COVID: An Emerging Global Health Crisis,” on Tuesday, August 27 at 11:00 a.m. EDT, virtually via Zoom. Click here to register.

Health systems face the concurrent challenges of coping with surges in SARS-CoV-2 infections and reinfections and caring for the estimated 7-15% of COVID-19 survivors who show new, recurring, or ongoing symptoms for weeks, months, or years post-infection. As SARS-CoV-2 transitions into endemicity, this potentially translates into hundreds of millions of people affected globally by long COVID.

This expert panel will bring together distinguished clinicians and public health researchers to discuss the present landscapes of long COVID care and research to promote comprehensive understanding of long COVID as an evolving public health crisis and to generate constructive dialogue that will contribute to clinical practice, research, and policy on long COVID.

WHAT:	Webinar: Long COVID: An Emerging Global Health Crisis
WHEN:	Tuesday, August 27, 2024   TIME:   8:00 am – 9:00 am Los Angeles 10:00 am – 11:00 am St. Louis 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Miami 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Madrid
WHERE:	Virtual Event via Zoom. Registration Link.
WHO:	Long COVID experts: Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, FASN — Chief of Research, VA St. Louis Health Care System Nancy Klimas, MD — Director, Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine, Nova Southeastern University; Director, Clinical Immunology Research, Miami VA Health Care System; Chair, Department of Clinical Immunology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University; Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical Immunology, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University; Professor Emerita, University of Miami, School of Medicine Joan Soriano, MD, PhD, FERS, FCCP — Associate Professor of Medicine, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Founding Fellow of the ERS; Fellow of CHEST FCCP; Associate Editor of the ERJ and Lancet Respiratory Medicine   MODERATOR: Ana Palacio, MD, MPH — Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director, UM Public Health Policy Lab, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Miami VA Healthcare System
MEDIA CONTACTS:	Denys Nazarov, Director of Global Policy & Communications, AHF, +1.323.308.1829, [e-mail] Brian Shepherd, Associate Director of Global Policy & Communications, AHF, +1.808.382.8570, [e-mail]

INTRODUCTION:

This event will bring together distinguished clinicians and public health researchers to discuss the present landscapes and future implications of long COVID care and research. To date, at least 65 million people globally are living with long COVID, a conservative estimate.

PANEL OBJECTIVE:

The objective of the panel is to promote comprehensive understanding of long COVID as an evolving public health crisis and to generate constructive dialogue that will contribute to clinical practice, research, and policy on long COVID. By bringing together experts from diverse areas, we hope to promote a more comprehensive understanding of the problem and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

TOPICS TO COVER INCLUDE:

The challenges of defining long COVID
The population burden of long COVID and implications for health systems
The causes, symptoms and clinical presentation of long COVID
The treatment and management of long COVID
The relation of long COVID to other chronic diseases, such as ME/CFS and Lyme Disease
The need for interdisciplinary research to address long COVID

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The AHF Global Public Health Institute is an initiative of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation created to engage in global public health policy analysis and research to generate objective evidence that can inform improvements in public health policy at the global, regional, national, and local levels, particularly for infectious diseases. To learn more about the AHF Global Public Health Institute, visit https://ahfinstitute.org/.