2021 Socrates Romania Online Healthcare Seminar Event information Contact On May 26-27, 2021, Aspen Institute Romania will organize an international online seminar under the framework of the Aspen Healthcare & Quality of Life Program, debating the resilience of healthcare systems and key challenges in public medicine, in the context of the SARS – COV- 2 pandemic. The seminar will be conducted in English and will consist of two 4-hour sessions, one session each day of the seminar. If you are interested in participating, please contact [email protected]. The Future of Public Health: Building a More Resilient Post Pandemic System Public health systems of countries around the world continue to be put to the test by SARS-COV-2 pandemic. This unique and often allusive disease seems perfectly designed to expose systemic weaknesses and tests the decades-old question in public medicine of how to balance innovation and universal healthcare. Countries around the world have managed this balance differently and are discovering live the costs and benefits of these choices. This seminar will debate key challenges of different public healthcare systems and ways in which different long-term investments and policies have shaped outcomes, looking to develop best practices for the Romanian health system. Topics will include: