Presentations

National Decision Making on COVID-19 Travel Measures

International Travel Measures During COVID-19: Risk, Impacts, & Effectiveness
  • Lee K, “The complexity of using travel measures during a public health emergency:  What have we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic?” Keynote Lecture, University of Sydney, 23 November 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Lecture) "The challenge of using travel measures during the  COVID-19 pandemic," Summer School on Sustainable Rebuilding and Good Governance after Covid-19, University of Maastricht and Airlangga University, Bali, Indonesia, June 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Moderator) Effectiveness of Border Measures, CanCOVID and PHAC, 25 May 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) "Roundtable on the “Future of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions,” Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC, 18 March 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Presenter) “Rethinking Global Governance to Address Zoonotic Disease Risk,” 8th International Conference on Neurology and Epidemiology, Paris, FRANCE, 30 March 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Presenter) Launch of PHAC COVID-19 reports, Asia Pacific Foundation, Vancouver, 30 March 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Expert witness) “How effective is the current traffic light system for international travel,” UK House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, UK, 14 July 2021.
  • Lee, K (Panellist) Aftershock:  Looking back at 1918 for a view of Vancouver’s future, Vancouver City Planning Commission. 27 October 2020.
  • Grépin, K. (Speaker) Looking at the Impact of Disease Outbreaks through DHIS Data. Digital DHIS2 Conference. University of Oslo. 22 September 2020.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) Science and Politics:  Responses to COVID-19. Vienna School of International Studies. 8 June 2020.
  • Grépin, K. (Presenter), How have countries responded to COVID-19 and how can we learn from this experience? APRU. 5 June 2020.
  • Grépin, K. Travel restrictions in the context of COVID-19 — An Open Dialogue. School of Public Health. The University of Hong Kong. 29 May 2020.

Pandemic Governance and the International Health Regulations (IHR)
  • Lee, K. (Keynote speaker) “The World Health Organization’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic,” World Boston Great Decisions Series, USA, 29 September 2021.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) “Shaping the Post-COVID World” 2021 SPPGA Policy Salon, UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the UBC School of Population and Public Health, 17 September 2021.
  • Lee, K. Pandemics and Borders. SFU President's Faculty Lecture. 4 June 2021
  • Worsnop, C., Grépin, K. (panellists) and Yin J. (moderator). COVID-19 and Cross-border health measures:  Lessons learned and critical questions for the future of the International Health Regulations. 26 May 2021.
  • Worsnop, C. and Marion, S. Pandemics and Borders: The Politics of Cross-Border Travel and Trade Measures During COVID-19. CISSM Global Forum. 22 April 2021.
  • Lee, K.  (Panellist) Sustaining the Response: Pandemics, Border Controls and International Travel. Chatham House. 26 February 2021.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) Health: Crisis governance for a vital global public good. European University Institute and Bruegel, Florence.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) Global infectious disease governance:  How we get off the merry-go-round of WHO reform. Global Health Panel, Perry House Global Order Colloquium “The UN at 75:  Coronavirus and Competition.” 5–7 September 2020.
  • Lee, K. (Chair) Panel on Governance, Social Science Research, GLOPID-R COVID-19 Conference. Wellcome Trust. 22 July 2020.
  • Lee, K. (Presenter) The IHR (2005) and COVID-19. On the Cutting Edge of COVID-19, Research in Canada and Beyond, Aga Khan Council of Canada. 26 May 2020.
  • Lee, K. Understanding compliance with the IHR (2005): Recommended strategies to inform and strengthen global coordination of the COVID-19 outbreak response. BC COVID-19 Research Symposium, BC Centre for Disease Control and the University of British Columbia, April 2020.

Other Global Health and Policy Governance Issues
  • Lee K, “Commercial Determinants of Health and Policymaking: Bridging the Gap” Health Inc Seminar Series: Corporations,Capitalism & the commercial determinants of health, 06 April 2023.
  • Lee, K. (Moderator) Politics, Political economy, and History: Major Trends Shaping the COVID-19 Pandemic. Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2021. 29 January 2021.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) “The Challenge of Funding Global Health Public Goods,” Chatham House, London, UK, 3 February 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) WHO: Past, present and future. Students for Global Health, Kings College London. 2  December 2020.  
  • Lee, K. (Speaker) Shared Risks, Collective Action: Building governance to protect and promote global health. Royal Society of Canada. Café Talks, Ottawa. 28 November 2020.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist)  Oslo-Lancet Commission on the Transnational Politics of  Health Equity. Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Dubai.  25 November 2020.
  • Grépin, K. (Vice Chair) Covid-19 and the future of global health policy analysis. The Fourth Symposium on Global Health Policy Research. 20 October 2020.
  • Lee, K. (Speaker). The path forward for WHO: With or without US? Global Health Security Webinar. University of Sydney. 22 June 2020.