On March 3rd, TEDMED 2020 Speaker Matt Hepburntook the TEDMED Stage to speak on Pandemic Preparedness. In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, he discussed the steps necessary to fight COVID-19 and, subsequently, to create a pandemic-free world. As Matt emphasized in his TEDMED 2020 Talk: “This pandemic situation is far too big and important for a few people behind closed doors to say they are going to take care of all of it themselves. We need everybody involved.”

This Week’s TEDMED Talk

3 building blocks for pandemic prevention that inspire optimism

Matt Hepburn, Pandemic Prevention Expert

In his TEDMED 2020 Talk, Pandemic Prevention Expert, Matt Hepburn, paints a realistic but hopeful picture of the COVID-19 outbreak and broader pandemic landscape. As he says, “The pandemic is here and this is serious…This is a very complex problem as everybody knows, there’s public health, there’s medicine, there’s quarantine, there’s social distancing, there’s wash your hands…but there are three strategic building blocks that I think will make a huge difference.”

Learn about how the strategic building blocks—advanced technology, global cooperation and political will—are at the heart of containing the current pandemic, and at the root of stopping a future pandemic before it starts in Matt’s Talk, “3 building blocks for pandemic prevention that inspire optimism” now on TEDMED.com.

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