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2 March 2021 12:00–13:30 Our international panel of scientists and policy advisors will explore the role of experts and the politics of Covid knowledge in different global contexts.  We ask how researchers, public health officials and policy actors can work better together during periods of acute uncertainty. Watch live below at 12 noon today Covid-19 has transformed the politics of public health and researchers have played a central role in shaping pandemic policy discourse around the world. In this context, these ‘experts’ have found themselves undergoing almost as much scrutiny as elected officials and many have assumed a highly public facing roles, helping to validate and contest policy responses. Extreme policy uncertainty and competing evidence citing narratives have highlighted the challenge of ‘following the science’. This crisis demands that we focus on the political, social and cultural dimensions of how expert advice is gen

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