Professor Michael Edelstein
Professor of Epidemiology Michael Edelstein: An Update on COVID-19 and What Lies Ahead
Summary
Professor Michael Edelstein, a specialist in infectious disease and vaccine epidemiology, provides an update on COVID-19 and discusses its unique characteristics, emphasizing its high contagiousness and ability to spread globally due to modern travel. He highlights the significance of vaccination, particularly in Israel, addresses concerns about vaccine variants, and shares his work in Eswatini, emphasizing the need for equitable vaccine distribution in Africa.
Professor Michael Edelstein
Michael Edelstein is a public health doctor with international experience specializing in infectious disease and vaccine epidemiology. His expertise and interests include vaccine epidemiology and policy, health inequalities outbreak management, data quality, and the use and role of digital tools to improve public health. At Bar-Ilan University, his focus is on reducing health inequalities in both infectious and non-communicable diseases in Israel and beyond. Professor Edelstein is also deputy editor of the journal Epidemiology & Infection and president of the infectious diseases section of the European Public Health Association. Before COVID-19 he responded to major public health emergencies in Africa (Ebola) and Southeast Asia (typhoon in the Philippines, earthquake in Nepal) and various European outbreaks. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications. He was also a member of England’s national COVID-19 surveillance team.
Carly Maisel
Carly Maisel is the global CEO of Kirsh Philanthropies.