Putting insight into action: local authority response to the coronavirus pandemic
In this talk, Si Chun will set out how Coventry City Council's insight team supported the city and sub-region's COVID-19 response through analysis and intelligence to support the shielding programme for vulnerable residents, test and trace, and backward contact tracing.
Si Chun is an insight professional with a passion for improving outcomes for local people through evidence-based public service redesign. An economist by training, Si Chun has coordinated research and transformation programmes in health, care and education. As Insight Development Manager, Si Chun has championed developing the city’s research and intelligence approach in order to provide high quality, accessible and actionable insight and intelligence to support the achievement of local priorities, especially in the areas of health and wellbeing, severe and multiple disadvantage and the City of Culture. As part of the COVID-19 response, Si Chun is co-ordinating epidemiology and intelligence across the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Test and Trace Beacon.