Virtual University of Pakistan is organizing a Webinar on “Public Health Policies and Community response towards Covid19”. The world has faced one of the greatest pandemics of the century COVID19 that has affected the lives and lifestyles of people significantly. This pandemic has raised serious concerns regarding the community life, community response on disease and associated SOPs, social care and public health policies for the wellbeing of society. Policy decisions of the government are of vital importance in this regard. Moreover,responsible attitude from the community is essential to mitigate the effects of the pandemic. Keeping in view the socio-cultural factors and people response to the adoption of measures against the pandemic, there is need to enlighten the people about their responsibilities as responsible citizens.
It is also very important to raise scholarly debate on the mentioned areas and challenges and, to find out how people as part of communities can deal with it. Thus, the purpose of this webinar “Public Health Policies and Community response towards Covid19” is to enlighten the scholars and youth regarding these challenges and responsibilities from the platform of Department of Sociology of Virtual University of Pakistan.
The objectives of the Webinar are:
To elucidate the response of the society/community towards the pandemic and measures taken to prevent it.
To explore the areas of social care and the responsibilities of the community during COVID-19.
To analyze the post covid19social economic challenges and opportunities from sociological perspective
Details:
Date: August 21, 2020
Time: 3:30 PM (Pakistam Standard Time - PKT)
Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__FKUV54ZQ-C_6n14BtsFCw
Certificate: E-Certificates will be provided to the participants.
Contact: For more details, please contact at "sadiajabeen@vu.edu.pk"
