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\"\"\u2018Gender stereotypes and the new era of globalised healthcare\u2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blog by Jane Slatter, SI St Albans and District<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carina was introduced and welcomed by Jane Webb from SI Canterbury.<\/p>\n

I will start by apologising about the length of this blog \u2013 Carina delivered so much valuable information that I don\u2019t want to miss out anything important!<\/p>\n

Carina was speaking to us from her workplace – Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge where she has been working on Corona viruses since 2019 \u2013 before the pandemic! Hers is quite a journey to tell us about, from medical student and model to the vital work she has been doing during the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Carina was introduced to what she described as her purpose in life of \u201chealth and wellbeing for all\u201d by her parents\u2019 work in Switzerland \u2013 her mother in healthcare and her father as a particle physicist working on the Cern Hadron Collider. She studied medicine at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge \u2013 a women only college, where she felt fortunate to be surrounded by exceptional women mentors and role models. In 2014 she had a year out from her degree having been crowned \u201cMiss World\u201d and now the charity ambassador for the Miss World charity foundation in aid of disadvantaged children. This enabled her to travel to support the charity\u2019s projects. Before then Carina had travelled in order to research viruses on a voluntary basis. One example she gave us was visiting an Amazon island where syphilis was prevalent with pregnant women and causing babies to die. It turned out that they had a belief that babies would be stronger if the women had sperm from multiple males. They were able to administer penicillin and babies survived. During her travels she saw first-hand the appalling impact of SARS, Ebola and the Zika virus. It was these experiences that led to her field of expertise in respiratory diseases and her interest in addressing the disparity in healthcare and health outcomes dependent on where you live in the world. When Carina qualified and while she was working as a junior doctor on the frontline in Oxford University Hospital she began her work of researching respiratory diseases \u2013 much of which went into the 2020 research papers on Coronavirus \u2013 the disease that has caused 5 million deaths, including a member of her own family. Only 2.6 million people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 out of a global population of 7.8 billion people. Carina said \u201cwe cannot eradicate COVID-19 until all nations have been able to eradicate it\u201d \u2013 health is global not national.<\/p>\n

Carina made some important points about the need for researchers to share information globally. International agreements are needed so that the benefits from genetic information can be shared. The Nagoya and Pitt protocols have been vital to the speed at which the COVID-19 vaccines were able to be developed \u2013 cutting times down from 5 years to less than 1 year. Sharing is efficient \u2013 it cuts trial times and prevents duplication of effort. There has been increased collaboration during the pandemic and there needs to be systems in place to support it. Researches need to be incentivised to share information that will benefit the world so that they are rewarded for their work.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carina showed us 3 videos where she was being interviewed on TV. In two she providing expert advice on the Coronavirus during the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 in one Piers Morgan appeared surprised that a Miss World winner would be doing the work that Carina is doing\u2026. In the third interview she was campaigning during the junior doctors\u2019 pay dispute in the UK \u2013 because of the pressure the NHS was under at the peak of COVID-19 hospitalisations in 2020. She had been working with the World Health Organisation on how to prepare and manage pandemics. Why was the world so ill-prepared? Global health security is underfunded because it is hard to advise countries to invest in something they might never need.<\/p>\n

Carina spoke about the importance of having good data to produce resourcing models. If you have unexpected demand, like with COVID-19 the systems cannot cope. The UK is lucky having good data from the NHS and was thus able to respond (relatively) quickly. Many countries\u2019 resources are not allocated well because they don\u2019t have the data to make decisions on.<\/p>\n

Carina is optimistic about the future of digital care. The pandemic has led to the adoption of more apps that can improve people\u2019s health outcomes than ever before. She is now working with a venture capital company that is investing in digital health systems \u2013 with personalised care being delivered to the point of care. She is also working with the Francis Crick institute, is a Governor of Cambridge Hospital and is working with Sir Greg Winter, Nobel Prize winner.<\/p>\n

This is one extremely busy, clever and inspirational woman \u2013 she is a feminist and passionate about encouraging more women and girls into STEM. She believes it is the role of the leader to create other leaders and that she has been fortunate in having so many great female role models. She ended with \u201cwe need more women scientists, policy makers and world leaders!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Q&A<\/strong> There were lots of questions about COVID-19. One question was about the distribution of excess vaccines. Carina says every country needs rapid distribution systems so that excess vaccines can be shared, however the cold storage temperatures for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines is a serious problem. Vaccine hesitancy? All comes down to education \u2013 we need scientists to explain things properly \u2013 Messenger RNA breaks down in the body and therefore can\u2019t interact with the body later.<\/p>\n

Carina was asked if she has suffered abuse as a woman \u2013 she said not personally but it needs it be challenged and solutions found so that women can feel safe and confident. Social media policies urgently need to be addressed.<\/p>\n

She was asked about future research and is excited about the great progress in retroviral treatments. The pandemic has shown how innovation can benefit healthcare systems globally.<\/p>\n

Summation<\/strong> After Carina\u2019s engaging and inspirational talk Jane Webb summarised that the main takeaway from it for her was that international collaboration is absolutely vital.<\/p>\n

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About the speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr Carina Tyrrell<\/a>\u00a0is a British-Swiss public health\u00a0physician<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0research scientist fellow<\/a>\u00a0at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n

Carina recently featured on the\u00a0front page of The Times<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 talking about her work leading on\u00a0COVID-19 antibody detection<\/a>,\u00a0COVID-19 management<\/a>\u00a0in intensive care, and identifying COVID-19\u00a0vaccine and therapeutic trials<\/a>\u00a0with Oxford University.<\/p>\n

She has worked with local and national government and international organisations including the World Health Organization,\u00a0where she\u00a0authored international policy documents\u00a0and published work on\u00a0emerging respiratory viruses<\/a>. As advisor to\u00a0healthcare-focused venture capital firms and\u00a0an ex-founder, Carina\u2019s work is driving the translation of\u00a0technology into healthcare systems<\/a>\u00a0and the use of digital health technologies.<\/p>\n

Carina graduated from Cambridge University with a First Class Degree in Medicine and a Master of Public Health with Distinction.<\/p>\n

She has appeared on\u00a0<\/span>BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, Radio 4, and has\u00a0been featured in<\/span>\u00a0The Times, Daily Telegraph, and Business Insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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