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Reminder: Overcoming a Pandemic - A Two-Way Street (NC State Webinar)

  • 1.  Reminder: Overcoming a Pandemic - A Two-Way Street (NC State Webinar)

    Posted 01-28-2021 17:00

    Reminder: Please join us Friday, February 5th (10 - 11:30am) for this special free webinar featuring two NC State professors who have been performing highly-relevant research surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, examining the dynamics of effectively overcoming it from both a service provider and consumer perspective.

    Each expert will provide a 30-minute presentation followed by a brief Q&A during which they will answer questions from the audience.

    Featured presentations:

    Creating New Intersections in Business and Medicine: The Case of Consumer Choice Theory
    Stacy Wood, Langdon Distinguished University Professor of Marketing, Poole College of Management
    Based on examples prompted by COVID-19, this talk will focus on how emerging connections between business and healthcare will serve us well in meeting current and future challenges and developing new innovative opportunities.

    Informing an Efficient, Effective and Equitable Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Julie Swann, A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor, Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Dr. Swann will provide an overview of how the public health system in the US allocates and distributes the COVID-19 vaccine along with potential pitfalls and areas for improvement. She will also discuss several scenarios that could occur over the upcoming months.

    Learn more about this event and register here: scm.ncsu.edu/event/...



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    Tim Kraft
    Assistant Professor
    NC State - Poole College of Management
    Raleigh NC
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