Global Vaccine Apartheid and Human Rights in the Time of COVID
The pandemic will not be overcome anywhere until it is overcome everywhere. Vaccine nationalism, however, has overwhelmed COVID-19 inoculation programs. As a result, vaccine programs are amplifying global inequalities in access to healthcare. How can we move from vaccine apartheid to programs based on human rights and global justice? Two global experts will discuss urgent solutions to this challenge, from applying the lessons of the successful global effort against HIV/AIDS to the calls from Global South countries to remove intellectual property barriers to more widespread access to COVID-19 vaccines
The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and the National Foundation for India.
Panelists
Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Biraj Patnaik, National Foundation for India
Alicia Ely Yamin, Partners In Health
César Rodríguez-Garavito, NYU Law