Fixing Fever Screening for Our Future's Sake: Prof Graham Machin FREng, National Physical Laboratory
Prof Graham Machin FREng, National Physical Laboratory
Department seminar
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 12.30pm to 1.30pm
St Lukes Chapel,
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into the spotlight a problem well-known, namely the general unreliability of body temperature measurement as currently practiced. What are the shortcomings of the current approaches to temperature measurement? How can it be improved? How could it protect us in a future pandemic?
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into the spotlight a problem well-known, namely the general unreliability of body temperature measurement as currently practiced. What are the shortcomings of the current approaches to temperature measurement? How can it be improved? How could it protect us in a future pandemic? Prof Graham Machin is a world authority on temperature measurement and a founder member of the UK National Body Temperature Measurement Group. His team have provided thermometry expertise in every area from border control fever screening to nuclear decommissioning.
15th November 12.30-1.30 at St Luke’s Chapel, followed by lunch at RPC.