COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group

COVID-19 vaccines and risk management

Bulletin 117 | By Josephine Robertson and Dr. Sarah Chan

In this bulletin we consider the non-compulsory nature of the vaccination programme and the ethical and cultural implications of alternative approaches.

Approaches to manage risk at individual and population level must be appropriate to the nature of the threat. We consider the impact on building or eroding social cohesion, a vital component in pandemic response.

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Josephine Robertson

Health & Care Actuary

Josephine Robertson is a Health and Care actuary with keen interest in the interplay of demographic risk, public health, policy, health systems and insurance industry.

Working with pension schemes, insurers and reinsurers, Josephine has experience in the ongoing management of demographic risk, including longevity, mortality, and morbidity. Josephine applies this expertise, alongside public health knowledge, when working in the public interest on the provision and sustainability of universal health coverage.

Josephine has a MA in Economics, a Master of Public Health, is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

She is an active volunteer within the actuarial profession including the COVID-19 Action Taskforce, professional education process and the Population Health Management research working party.

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