Jointly organized by the Faculty of Medicine of our University and the University of Exeter in the UK and including in the organization team Ahmet KARAKAYA, research assistant at IMU Department of History of Medicine and Ethics and PhD student at the University of Exeter, “Cross-Border COVID Research Workshop” was held online on 30 March 2022.
In the opening speech, Prof.Dr. Sadrettin PENÇE, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of our University, and Prof.Dr. Gareth STANSFIELD from the University of Exeter shared their speeches about the current situation of Istanbul Medeniyet University and Exeter University and the importance of this meeting. Afterwards, Prof.Dr. Işıl MARAL, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, explained the filiation practice in COVID-19 to the audience by using the measles outbreak in 2012-2013 as an example. Then, Dr. Geoffrey HUGHES from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Exeter shared information about the management of developing countries under pandemic conditions, human relations and sociological dimension with the example of Jordan. In the next session, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Müstakim ARICI from the Department of Philosophy of our University talked about the past epidemics in the Islamic world. Prof.Dr. David TOLLERTON from the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter talked about the sociological impact of COVID-19 in Britain. In the last session of the workshop, Asst.Prof.Dr. Hatice İKIIŞIK from the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of our University talked about vaccine hesitations in our country. The other speaker Prof.Dr. Susan BANDUCCI evaluated the COVID-19 cases in Britain in terms of race and ethnicity. She discussed the disease and the pandemic in the context of socio-economic inequalities experienced by immigrants and minorities.
The event was attended by approximately 50 people and questions from the audience were answered at the end of each session. The workshop was concluded by making wishes for the development of bilateral cooperation plans and improving the quality of education.
