Please note this seminar will be in room A-130, WMS main building and online via Teams

Professor Ben Cowling Professor Benjamin Cowling joined the School of Public Health (SPH) at HKU in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2003 and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London (UK). Professor Cowling has been the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2013. He is responsible for teaching the introductory module in epidemiology on the MPH curriculum and is the chairman of the Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee. Prof Cowling is a codirector of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at HKU SPH.

‘Epidemiology and Control of COVID-19 in Hong Kong’ In early 2020, Hong Kong was one of the first locations to detect COVID-19 outside of mainland China. However, in the first two years of the pandemic timely public health measures as part of a “Dynamic Zero Covid” strategy were able to successfully control a number of surges in daily case numbers, restricting the incidence of confirmed cases below 1% of the population. I will discuss epidemiological phenomena including super-spreading and epidemic phase bias, and how vaccines could provide a safe exit pathway from the Dynamic Zero Covid strategy.

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