0:00 Intro

6:11 State Response to Covid-19

28:48 Public Response to Covid-19

35:12 Healthcare System Reform

47:07 Recommendations vs Decision-Making

59:29 Covid-19 & Economic Crisis

1:12:14 Contextual Factors & Covid-19

We're back with Fatima Al Sayah for Episode 183 of The Beirut Banyan.

We discuss the Lebanese state's response to the Covid-19 pandemic; public behavior that has changed since the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier this year; Lebanon's healthcare system and state institutions in dire need of reform; severe disconnect between policy papers and decision makers; Covid-19's impact on Lebanon's economic crisis; and contextual factors that matter when comparing different countries' experiences to the pandemic.

Fatima is a Public Health Researcher at the School of Public Health - University of Alberta. She is also a member of 'HealthNERDS'.

Here is the link to the LCPS piece discussed:

https://www.lcps-lebanon.org/featuredArticle.php?id=316

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