The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), the Senegal Academy of Science and Technology (ANSTS), and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) kindly invite you to the International Virtual Panel Discussion entitled  “COVID-19 and Multimorbidity: How to Deal with Multiple Infectious Diseases in Parallel?”. The discussion will explore what happens when COVID-19 meets other infectious diseases. Renowned health experts from Ethiopia, Germany, Senegal, South Africa, and the UK will discuss different aspects of multimorbidity as a growing public health challenge across the globe and point out options in dealing with the crisis.

 Date: Thursday, 26 November 2020
Time: 17:00 to 18:15 

Registration required at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q2fW1VF-T02ty822PKlhKQ

After registration, you will receive a confirmation (please check the junk mail, as sometimes automatic mails might be filtered). Please find additional information in the programme. We would be very thankful, if you could forward this invitation to interested persons. Please feel free to retweet and share the official postings of the Leopoldina (Twitter and Facebook), ASSAf (Twitter and Facebook) and other partners related to this event.

The event is part of the new Leopoldina International Virtual Panel Series: a novel format that enables the worldwide scientific exchange in COVID-19 times and the ASSAf International Cooperation.