Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic tested each nation’s ability to mount a rapid response to control transmission.
In Wales, a system-wide response was quickly designed and established to ensure adequate services were in place for diagnostics, surveillance and prevention and control. New technology and services were rapidly mobilised, often without prior experience of implementation in terms of scale and magnitude.
Throughout this period, Public Health Wales, as the national institute for public health in Wales, worked closely with Welsh Government to inform policy and strategy decisions, relying on the outputs of surveillance and the ever-changing evidence base.
This lecture will provide an account of the challenges of rapid implementation and making decisions with uncertain science.
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