[CODATA-international] ISC Webinar: Public Understanding and Use of Statistics in Relation to the Pandemic, 28 April

Mon Apr 25 12:29:29 EDT 2022

28 April | 14:00 UTC | 16:00 CEST

The ISC presents its final webinar in a six-part series on COVID and the
Social Sciences
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G26wKMvuZc8&list=PLIF4ZAQU71TpJFeX9ohw9RgXFNagc6fdw>
, *Public Understanding and Use of Statistics in Relation to the Pandemic*.

The series explores the impact of the social sciences on the pandemic and
the impact of the pandemic on the social sciences. In six episodes, the
series covers Economics <https://youtu.be/dIM7IXuePqw>, Psychology
<https://youtu.be/Hmokdb11b7w>, Sociology
<https://youtu.be/5Q3I1KBLAPI>, Political
Science <https://youtu.be/G26wKMvuZc8>, Anthropology
<https://council.science/events/pandemic-anthropology/>, and now Statistics.

The focus of this episode is on how statistics are analyzed, represented,
and understood. The webinar will address the following two questions:

   - How effective were statistics in informing citizens and policy makers
   in thinking about the pandemic and in formulating responses to the pandemic?
   - How has the pandemic impacted developments within statistics and the
   communication of statistics to citizens and policy makers?

Register
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jn7mXRYNRHana58SQGyixg>
Agenda

*(Times refer to UTC)*

*Start times: London: 15:00 | Paris 16:00 | Nairobi: 17:00 | Delhi 19:30 |
New York 10:00*
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome and Introduction to the Chair by Stephen Penneck,
President of the International Statistical Institute
14:05 – 14:10 Introduction to the topic by Craig Calhoun
14:10 – 14:45 Keynote lecture by David Spiegelhalter
14:45 – 15:05 Comments from the discussants
15:05 – 15:20 Further Discussion, Q&A
15:20 – 15:25 Closing remarks
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Speakers
David Spiegelhalter, *Keynote speaker*

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Chair of the Winton Centre for
Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, which aims
to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health
professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers.  He
has been very busy over the Covid crisis.  His bestselling book, *The Art
of Statistics*, was published in March 2019, and *Covid by Numbers* came
out in October 2021.

He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics, was President
of the Royal Statistical Society (2017-2018), and became a Non-Executive
Director of the UK Statistics Authority in 2020.

Stephen Penneck, *Welcome and Introduction of the Chair*

Stephen Penneck is President of the International Statistical Institute.
He is from the UK, based in London, and was recently Honorary Officer for
Official Statistics at the Royal Statistical Society, where he is a Fellow
and a Chartered Statistician.

Stephen retired in 2012 as Director General at the UK’s Office for National
Statistics, following a career in official statistics.

Since retirement, Stephen has published articles and given lectures on a
range of topics in official statistics including economic statistics, open
data, and governance, trust and ethics; contributed to ISI workshops and
regional conferences; and organised sessions at recent IAOS conferences and
World Statistics Congresses.
Craig Calhoun <https://council.science/profile/craig-calhoun/>, *Chair*

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State
University. Previously, he was Director of the London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE), President of the Berggruen Institute, and
President of the Social Science Research Council. His publications address
politics, economics, the impact of technology, and social change.

Kerrie Mengersen, *Discussant*

Kerrie Mengersen is a Distinguished Professor in Statistics at the
Queensland University of Technology and Director of the QUT Centre for Data
Science. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and
the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia. Kerrie is currently a
Vice-President of the ISI and leads the Public Voice portfolio. She is
involved in national and international projects related to the covid-19
pandemic, particularly with respect to analysis of global patterns of
infection, impacts of travel restrictions, and comparative benefits of
vaccination. A key component of this work is the translation of statistical
insights to the public.

Harpreet Singh, *Discussant*

Harpreet Singh is a computational biologist with experience in Data
Management, Machine Learning, NGS data analysis and Research Management. He
did his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a
postdoc in NGS Data Analysis from Cornell University, USA. He heads the
Division of Biomedical Informatics at the Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) and ICMR-AIIMS Computational Genomics Centre. In addition,
he is an Adjunct Faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and an honorary
Research Advisor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo,
Norway. Currently, Singh is working on organizing Data Systems at ICMR and
developing an integrated research platform. Singh’s team has developed data
systems for 23 major programs of ICMR and Ministry including National COVID
19 testing database, which currently holds testing data of 800 million
individuals. Singh has published 116 research papers, 14 book chapters, and
17 copyrights of the developed software/programs.
Ellen Peters, *Discussant*

Dr. Ellen Peters is the Philip H. Knight Chair and Director of the Center
for Science Communication Research at the University of Oregon. She studies
the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making and their
links with effective communication techniques. She is particularly
interested in how affective, intuitive, and deliberative processes help
people perceive risks and make decisions.  She has published more than 160
peer-reviewed papers in outlets such as *PNAS, JAMA, Annual Review of
Public Health*, *Psychological Science, *and *Nature Climate Change*. She
also authored the book *Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and
Misusing Numbers*, published by Oxford University Press. She is former
President of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making and a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association
for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychological Association
(APA), and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). She has
worked extensively with federal agencies to advance decision and
communication sciences in health and health policy, including being Chair
of FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee and member of the NAS’s
Science of Science Communication committee. She has received an NIH Group
Merit Award and was the first American to win the Jane Beattie Scientific
Recognition Award. She has received extensive funding from the National
Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.

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