IASH is proud to support the Fulbright Distinguished Lecture on Friday 19 November 2021.
Preventing the Next Pandemic: what have we learned about international health collaboration and what needs to change?
To answer this question, Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh, examines the historical roots of international cooperation in health and the subsequent creation of the World Health Organisation in the aftermath of World War II. The WHO’s existence is rooted in outbreak management across borders. And yet in the hyperconnected world of 2020-21, global cooperation broke down illustrated by divergent & nationally-driven strategies on COVID-response, vaccine nationalism and hoarding by rich countries, and tense political fractures over the origins of COVID-19. Can we rectify these gaps moving forward? That is what Professor Sridhar examines in this thought-provoking lecture that also offers reflections on how – when the next pandemic comes – we can do better.
The event was livestreamed from Pembroke College, Oxford.