Speakers: Dr Jeremy Farrar (Director, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom), Dr Claudia Stein (Director, Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe) and Professor Morten Jerven (Professor of Development Studies, International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) Norwegian University of Life Sciences).
In today’s world, an enormous amount of information about our life (and death) is being recorded as data. Health is no exception. We are surrounded by numbers, from statistics on well-being and quality of life to epidemiological data that can help fight disease and even predict epidemics. In fact, a recent UN report about mobilizing the data revolution to support sustainable development describes our world as “a world that counts”.
However, there are many important social, political, and cultural factors that influence the process of collecting, producing, analysing, and managing quantitative data. This panel discussion, held on 23rd June 2017, explores the cultural contexts of data and the powerful potential for (and possible pitfalls of) ruling the world by numbers.
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