This is a recording of the talk by Dr Anne Cori as presented at the Epidemics conference plenary session (including bonus slides), highlighting the issues scientists face and how privilege underpins career trajectories. The 9th Epidemics International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics was held in Bologna, Italy 28 November - 1 December 2023.

Read more about the plenary session by Dr Anne Cori in this Imperial College News item: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/24999...

About Dr Anne Cori, MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London: Dr Cori is a senior lecturer at Imperial College London. She develops statistical methods and tools for the analysis of epidemic data. She is particularly interested in emerging infections, and contexts where data are scarce and statistical methods can be developed to answer important public health questions despite these limitations in data. She is the author of the R package EpiEstim. Her research mainly focuses on viruses including SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, MERS, influenza and HIV.

©Dr Anne Cori
Disclaimer: This talk was independently created by Dr Anne Cori. She had not received any training to run the privilege walk, the audience were asked personal questions, nobody was forced to participate and answers were anonymous. All participants were informed that the data would be analysed and displayed on screen immediately after being collected as part of the talk in real-time. The data cannot be used for any further analysis.

Video editor: Alistair Moulton Black (https://www.alistairmoultonblack.com)

Resources:
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Slide 12 - BBC 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-6...
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Slide 21 - Example: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/dean-o...
Slide 22 - Example: https://www.nctech.org/events/event/2...
Slide 24 - Bespoke privilege walk: https://bit.ly/privilege-template
Slide 24 - Code: https://github.com/mrc-ide/privilege_...
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Slide 59 - Stonewall 2016 https://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/lg...
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Slide 97 - Book: 'Invisible women Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' by Caroline Criado Perez