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The role of trust in health care systems has never been more important than during the current outbreak of COVID-19. Elias Papaioannou was joined in conversation with Oeindrila Dube, the Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, to discuss how her research in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak. This conversation is part of the Wheeler Institute’s COVID-19 series – bringing together the expertise and experience of our extended community to understand, illuminate and offer solutions to the challenges created by COVID-19. Our differentiating factor is the role of business in addressing these challenges, with a focus on the implications and actions for those in developing countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global-wide event that has fundamentally changed the way humans go about their lives. From education, to work, to healthcare and safety, all the familiar systems and processes have been replaced with new, unfamiliar ones. Concepts like remote work and virtual education, which were forecasted to take place gradually over the course of many years, occurred suddenly. Will COVID-19 change governments forever? In this World Government Summit webinar, Prof. James Robinson shares his insights on the future of governments to post the COVID-19 pandemic.