Pandemic breakfast #8
The goal of the pandemic breakfast is to get acquainted with ongoing research on pandemic-related issues and future crises/multi-crises, and to inspire collaboration between various disciplines to initiate knowledge preparedness from multiple perspectives.
Elina Seppälä
Senior Researcher, Department of Infection Control and Vaccines
Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI)
Elina Seppälä works with infection control and vaccination strategies at FHI. Her research focuses on vaccine effectiveness, epidemiology of infectious diseases, and public health preparedness. She leads projects on pertussis epidemiology and contributes to national and international surveillance reports, including influenza monitoring for WHO.
Elina collaborates across disciplines to improve vaccination programs and inform policy decisions that protect population health.
Dorthea Roe
She is a PhD candidate at Department of Information Science and Media Studies at UiB, connected to the research group for rhetoric, democracy and public culture.
The constitution of individual rhetorical agency in a health risk situation: How an influencer is putting AMR on the agenda. Roe askes what makes societies see, acknowledge, and constitute an issue as a crisis which should be acted upon? She address this by examining a specific instance of media attention to a creeping health crisis, namely the communication of an individual non-governmental actor, the influencer Ingeborg Senneset.
The event is in Norwegian.
Participate online (external link) or In Alrek Health Cluster. Coffee is servered.