Presentations

National Decision Making on COVID-19 Travel Measures
  • Zhumatova, Salta (Presenter). COVID-19 Travel Measures in U.S.-Canada Border Communities: Policy Feedback. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, September 11 – 14, 2025.
  • Zhumatova, Salta, and Andréanne Bissonnette (Presenters). Understanding, Recovering from and Mitigating Inequities Associated with the Use of Travel Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons for Post-pandemic Recovery and Future Preparedness from Canada-US Border Management. New Frontiers in Research Fund, Virtual Mid-Term Forum 2022 Special Call Research for Postpandemic Recovery, Canada (online), September 12-13, 2024.
  • Zhumatova, Salta (Presenter). Equity-based Analysis of Canada-US Cross Border Travel Measures during COVID-19. International Studies Annual Convention, San Francisco, USA,  April 3 – 6, 2024.
  • Lee, Kelley, and Fang, Jennifer. (Presenters) “The way ahead for travel measures during public health emergencies: Lessons for BC from the COVID-19 pandemic,” BCCDC Grand Rounds, 30 May 2023.
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) “Re-opening the US-Canada border: What does this mean, what will it take, when will it happen?” Metropolist North America Forum, USA, 29 June 2021.
  • Lee, K. (Lecture) “Past COVID, Will Travel: Why fixing Canada's border management must come before lifting travel restrictions,” SFU Lunch and Learn, 16 June 2021.
  • Piper, J. (Panellist) The National Security Community’s Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Centre for International Policy Studies. University of Ottawa. 22 February 2021.

International Travel Measures During COVID-19: Risk, Impacts, & Effectiveness
  • Lee, K. (Keynote speaker) “What have we learned about using travel measures during a pandemic?” Pandemics and Borders Project and National University of Singapore, Singapore, 22 January 2026.
  • Murage et al. (Poster) “Travel measures in response to health emergencies: Equity implications of information and communication strategies” Canadian Conference on Public Health, Winnipeg, 29 April-1 May 2025.
  • Lee, Kelley, and Bissonette, Andreanne. (Presenters) “Understanding inequities with the use of travel measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of the US-Canada border,” Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Montreal, June 2024.
  • Lee, J. (Presenter) “The way ahead for travel measures during public health emergencies:  Advancing risk-based approaches,” PHAC Centre for Integrated Risk Assessment, July 2023.
  • Lee, K. (Discussant) “Three Years Later: A Look Back at the Impact of Border Closures on COVID-19,” Global Strategy Lab, York University, 17 March 2023.
  • Lee, K. (Presenter) “Travel measures during COVID-19 pandemic,” The Political Determinants of Health Collective Workshop, Oslo, NORWAY, 18-19 January 2023.
  • Lee, K. (Keynote Speaker) “The complexity of using travel measures during a public health emergency:  What have we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic?” University of Sydney, 23 November 2022.
  • Lee, K. (Presenter) “Advancing a risk-based approach to border management during PHEICs,” Conference on Borders, Boundaries and Pandemics, Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics (CHLPE), University of Ottawa, 21-22 October 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. (Presenter) Advancing risk-based approaches to border management during public health emergencies of international concern: A comparative review of methodologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Migration Policy Institute Working Group Meeting, Washington DC, 14 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. (Lecture) “Pandemics and Borders:  How to manage travel restrictions more effectively,” SFU President’s Faculty Lecture, 1 June 2021.  
  • Lee, K. (Panellist) Charting the Strategic Path Out of COVID-19, SFU, April 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. (Presenter) “Nationalism versus Globalism:  Lessons from COVID-19 for Strengthening Global Health Diplomacy,” Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET) Webinar, 28 May 2025.
  • Lee, K. (Invited Speaker) “The role of border management in global pandemic governance: Legal, ethical and operational challenges,” Global Health Lunch and Learn, UBC School of Population and Public Health, 9 February 2023.
  • 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.
  • Lee, K. (Chair and Presenter) Strengthening the coordination role of the International Health Regulations (2005) during global public health emergencies:  Cross-border measures during COVID-19. ISA Annual Convention, USA, April 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. (Panellist) “Investable!  When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance, A conversation” FHS Seminar, SFU, 30 October 2025.
  • Lee, K. (Facilitator) Introducing Serious Games as a Health Systems Learning and Training Tool, Capacity Building Workshop, Pandemics and Borders Project, Health Systems Global, Nagasaki, 21 November 2024.
  • 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, L. (Presenter) “Potential contributions of social scientists to support BC COVID-19 Recovery,” BC Recovery Expert Advisory Committee, BCCDC, 29 June 2022.
  • 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.