The coronavirus pandemic: learning from international experience

Based on the Ordinance of the Minister of Science and Higher Education, in August 2020 the President Stanisław Wojciechowski State University of Applied Sciences in Kalisz, Poland was transformed into the Calisia Academy. The inauguration of the new academic year at Calisia Academy took place on 19 October 2020. As a result of the long-standing scientific cooperation with the Academy’s Institute – European Observatory of Health Inequalities team, the Rector of the Calisia University, prof. Andrzej Wojtyła and the Director of the Institute, prof. Witold Zatoński, invited prof. Martin McKee to deliver the inaugural lecture.

Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health and Medical Director at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is also Research Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Past President of the European Public Health Association. He trained in medicine and public health and has written extensively on health and health policy, with a particular focus on countries undergoing political and social transition.

Professor McKee’s inaugural lecture was entitled “The coronavirus pandemic: learning from international experience”. The video recording of the lecture is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYAqGNwoMo&feature=youtu.be in English, or at https://akademia.kalisz.pl/inauguracja-roku-akademickiego-2020-2021-2/ with Polish translation. The transcript of the lecture is presented below.