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ENGINEERS ARE KEY TO PREPAREDNESS


ensuring that datasets and data systems used for decision-making are up-to-date and bias-free, equipping emergency response task forces with more engineering capability and encouraging the use of open science and data sharing standards. There were also calls for governments, policy makers and others, including the engineering professions, to identify and close structural gaps in resilience against future pandemics through investing in skills, training and capacity. However, far from being critical of the engineering response in the last pandemic, the report highlights the importance of the contributions made by engineers and engineering companies in tackling the problems of the pandemic. These achievements included rapid innovation, designing products for diverse environments, making the best use of existing capacity to ramp up production of key products and streamlining supply chains to deliver equipment and vaccines in challenging conditions. The objective of the review board is to now reflect on these


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resilience gap by investing in skills, training and capacity


achievements and use them as examples for forming policies for handling any future pandemics in a more efficient way. Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, chair of the Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness board, believes that such a reflection is necessary in order to envisage how things might be handled better in the future. “Our hope is that we can use the insights provided by this overview of the engineering response to COVID-19 to better integrate engineering skills and habits of mind into resilience policies and structures all around the world, to improve our recovery from the virus, and to help us on the path to a safer, more prepared and resilient future,” he says. The role of engineers and the engineering industry had a significant impact on how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled and highlights the requirements for a cross-discipline response to such pandemics. The report quite rightly examines the way these disciplines worked together and intends to learn from the experience to develop the skills needed to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics.


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n answer to a review of the engineering response to the COVID-19 pandemic by “Engineeing X”, senior delegates from 30 countries attended a conference of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences in Versailles, France. Some of the top actions recommended by the review group included


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