Critical Conversation: Health: Future Care or Future Crises?

Brian Goldman and Dan Werb

Critical Conversation: Health: Future Care or Future Crises?

Brian Goldman and Dan Werb

7:30pm

Wednesday, September 28

Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

Healthcare systems have long been struggling to cope, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of future iterations have placed unbearable stress on the system, which still has to deal with the challenges of complex healthcare demands for an ageing population, mental health needs and more as society’s needs change. How does the healthcare system fight a war on two fronts? Joining the conversation will be Dr. Brian Goldman, ER doctor, bestselling author and host of the popular CBC Radio show White Coat, Black Art, and Dan Werb, an epidemiologist at the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto whose book The Invisible Siege investigates the origins of COVID.

Moderated by Wency Leung.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 28 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

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Each day of the Festival, authors and industry experts will come together for candid, live conversations to examine a new facet of the culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read.

Healthcare systems have long been struggling to cope, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of future iterations have placed unbearable stress on the system, which still has to deal with the challenges of complex healthcare demands for an ageing population, mental health needs and more as society’s needs change. How does the healthcare system fight a war on two fronts? Joining the conversation will be Dr. Brian Goldman, ER doctor, bestselling author and host of the popular CBC Radio show White Coat, Black Art, and Dan Werb, an epidemiologist at the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto whose book The Invisible Siege investigates the origins of COVID.

Moderated by Wency Leung.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 28 at 7:30pm ET
Where: Studio Theatre in Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 75 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

Baillie Gifford banner - "Curious about the world, bailliegifford.com"

Featured Authors

Brian Goldman
Dr. Brian Goldman is an ER doctor and a bestselling author and has hosted the CBC Radio show and podcast, White Coat, Black Art for over a decade. He is also the host of a new CBC podcast about personal health, The Dose, and is a sought-after speaker. He lives in Toronto with his family.

Read more about Brian Goldman

Dan Werb
Dan Werb, PhD, is an award-winning writer and epidemiologist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Believer, The Walrus and elsewhere. His first book, City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands, was a finalist for the 2019 Governor-General’s Award for Non-Fiction. Beyond his writing, Dan holds dual faculty appointments at the University of Toronto and the University of California San Diego. He has won several awards for his epidemiologic work, including a U.S. National Institutes of Health Avenir Award and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Traiblazer Award.

Read more about Dan Werb

7:30pm

Wednesday, September 28

What to read

The Invisible Siege: The Rise Of Coronaviruses And The Search For A Cure by ,
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