Prof Edelstein is a UK trained Public Health doctor, specialised in infectious disease and vaccine epidemiology. His expertise and interests include vaccine epidemiology and policy, health inequalities outbreak management, data quality and use and the role of digital tools to improve public health. At Bar Ilan University his focus in on reducing health inequalities in both infectious and non-communicable diseases in the multi-ethnic population of Northern Israel. Prior to moving to Israel (August 2020) he was a consultant in Public Health England’s immunization team, an associate professor at LSHTM and a research fellow at Chatham House’s Centre on Global Health Security. He is deputy editor of Epidemiology & Infection and former President of Infectious Diseases section, European Public Health Association.
In his talk Prof Edelstein will describe some preliminary findings from his team describing the protective effect of COVID19 vaccination against long term effects of SARS CoV-2 infection, sometimes referred to as long COVID. He will also outline future research plans.
Watch a recording here