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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation recently said "vaccine nationalism harms everyone and protects no one”.

It is increasingly clear that this pandemic cannot end in the developed world without addressing and ensuring that the citizens of the developing world are also vaccinated. This public debate seeks to provide some focus to the challenges confronting the developing world on vaccines and the nationalist overtones around it. But it will also touch on a broader challenge in our historical moment where all of our discontents are transnational in character and require to be addressed on a global rather than national scale.

As the world implements COVID-19 vaccinations, will countries in the global south have equal access? With a history of healthcare inequalities and enforced vaccine trials, how do we ensure global vaccination is carried out ethically and equally, and encourage governments and societies to act for the greater good? Should countries who have an oversupply of vaccines redistribute these to developing countries who cannot afford the costs of vaccines?

SPEAKERS:

Professor Adam Habib - SOAS University of London Director (Chair)

Dr. Peter Singer - Special Advisor to the Director General (World Health Organization)

Dr. Segenet Kelemu - Director General and CEO (ICIPE)

Martin Wolf CBE - Chief Economics Commentator(Financial Times)

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