Thursday 3 December 2020, 11:00-12:00 (UK time)

About the Event

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global movement. Following almost a year of restrictions, quarantine periods, changing travel corridors and border closures, travel for business and leisure remains extremely limited. Comprising over 247,000 alumni located in 167 countries worldwide, Warwick’s global alumni community has a significant interest in exploring how the industry might recover.

In this webinar we will be joined live from Melbourne by Warwick alumnus and founder of Lonely Planet Publications, Tony Wheeler, to discuss his views and explore what the future of travel might look like in a post pandemic society.

Interviewing Tony will be Professor Noel McCarthy of the Warwick Institute for Global Pandemic Planning (IGPP), and Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control, Warwick Medical School.

Tony and Noel will discuss these topics, and answer questions submitted by our global alumni community, including how consumers travel behaviour may change and how academic research from the IGPP can support the recovery.

Speakers

Tony Wheeler

After studying Engineering at Warwick, Tony Wheeler moved to Australia with his wife after a six-month backpacking adventure across Asia in the early 1970s. The trip led them to write ‘Across Asia on the Cheap’ and found Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, which went on to become one of the world’s best known travel guide producers. They sold the company in 2011, but he continues to write and work on their foundation, Planet Wheeler.

Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control, Warwick Medical School

Noel leads the Communicable Disease Control, Evidence and Epidemiology research group (CDCE2), a collaboration between the University of Warwick, Public Health England and Health Education England, along with the Warwick Institute for Global Pandemic Planning (IGPP), and has contributed to the debate on the UK Government’s approach to responding to Covid-19, particularly in the care home population.

Warwick Institute for Global Pandemic Planning (IGPP)

The IGPP combines Warwick’s world-class expertise in mathematical modelling, public health and behavioural science, to develop comprehensive solutions for global leaders struggling to respond to the health, social, economic and psychological impacts of pandemics. The Institute will develop global partnerships to expand the reach of this crucial research and develop an interdisciplinary response group of experts to advise governments. It will also recruit a network of international PhD students, to act as ambassadors for this scientific approach and feedback key learning into their respective countries.