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The science of COVID-19

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee, 7 May 2020 to 2 March 2021. Its page on the Parliament website.

Evidence sessions

  • 19 May 2020: Dr Samantha Lycett, University of Edinburgh; Professor John Edmunds OBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Dr Rosalind Eggo, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • 19 May 2020: Professor Danny Altmann, Imperial College London; Professor Jonathan Ball, University of Nottingham; Professor David Robertson, University of Glasgow
  • 2 June 2020: Dr Paul Birrell, University of Cambridge; Professor Mark Woolhouse OBE, University of Edinburgh
  • 2 June 2020: Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock, University of Bristol; Professor Matt Keeling, University of Warwick; Dr Adam Kucharski, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Professor Neil Ferguson OBE, Imperial College London
  • 9 June 2020: Professor Sir John Burn, Newcastle University; Professor Jon Deeks, University of Birmingham; Professor Andrew Hayward, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care; Professor Sheila Bird, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
  • 9 June 2020: Professor Susan Michie, UCL Centre for Behaviour Change; Professor Lucy Yardley, University of Bristol; Professor Lucy Yardley, University of Southampton; Professor David Halpern, Behavioural Insights Team
  • 15 June 2020: Dr Elizabeth Whittaker, St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust; Dr Elizabeth Whittaker, Imperial College London; Professor Mauro Giacca, King's College London; Dr Manu Shankar-Hari, King's College London; Professor Beverley Hunt OBE, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • 15 June 2020: Professor Sir John Bell, University of Oxford; Professor Adrian Hayday, King's College London; Professor Adrian Hayday, Francis Crick Institute; Professor Massimo Palmarini, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
  • 23 June 2020: Professor Sarah Gilbert, The Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford; Professor Robin Shattock, Imperial College London; Dr Ian Gray, Sanofi Pasteur
  • 23 June 2020: Professor Peter Openshaw, Imperial College London; Professor Peter Openshaw, St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust; Professor Ultan Power, Queen's University Belfast; Professor Arne Akbar, UCL; Professor Arne Akbar, British Society of Immunology
  • 29 June 2020: Professor Noel McCarthy, University of Warwick; Professor Noel McCarthy, Public Health England; Professor Christophe Fraser, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford; Professor Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University; Professor Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University
  • 29 June 2020: Professor Peter Horby, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford; Dr Sir Michael Jacobs, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
  • 6 July 2020: Office of National Statistics; Dr Michael Veale, UCL; Dr Michael Veale, Alan Turing Institute; Nuffield Council on Bioethics
  • 6 July 2020: Baroness Harding of Winscombe, NHS Improvement; Simon Thompson, Department of Health and Social Care
  • 17 July 2020: Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Office for Science; Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health and Social Care; Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health and Social Care; Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health and Social Care; Professor Nick Phin, Public Health England; Professor Nick Phin, Public Health England
  • 21 July 2020: Professor Baron Peter Piot KCMG, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Sir Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute; Professor Dame Anne Johnson, Academy of Medical Sciences; Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, Royal Society
  • 15 September 2020: Professor Donal O'Donoghue, Royal College of Physicians; Professor Donal O'Donoghue, Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust; Professor Donal O'Donoghue, University of Manchester; Royal College of Pathologists; Professor Tom Solomon, University of Liverpool
  • 15 September 2020: Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust; Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, British Heart Foundation; Professor Chris Brightling, University of Leicester; Professor Kamlesh Khunti, University of Leicester
  • 22 September 2020: Age UK; Dr Tamsin Ford CBE, University of Cambridge; Professor Sonia Johnson, University College London
  • 22 September 2020: Dr Michael Bloomfield, University College London; Dr Michael Bloomfield, COVID Traumatic Stress Clinic, UCL; British Psychological Society; Queen's University Belfast; Professor Matthew Hotopf CBE, King's College London