The COVID-19 Outbreak and Public Health Issues: An Interdisciplinary Approach

This chapter aims to present the content of the discussions that took place following he presentations of the workshop “The COVID-19 Outbreak and Public Health Issues: an Interdisciplinary Approach”. Discussion focused in particular on how interdisciplinary research can be useful for policy, on how the pandemic changed the way to do research. It was in particular question of research purpose testing, epidemiological surveys, and its related matters such as reliability, technology, methods, samples, ethics. Were also discussed the question of respective weight of social and biological factors in the diffusion of the epidemy and how collective representations could affect information and population trust in public health policies. © 2022, RIETI.