The Future of Global Health: A Conversation with Leading Health Justice Activists on What Lies Ahead

The Yale College Global Health Studies Program and the Yale Global Health Justice Partnership invite you to attend the talk, "The Future of Global Health: A Conversation with Leading Health Justice Activists on What Lies Ahead," featuring Vuyiseka Dubula, Director of the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management (University of Stellenbosch) and former Treatment Action Campaign Secretary-General, and Jamila Headley, Managing Director of the Health Global Access Project.

The start of the 21st century saw a surge of interest in global health. Significant new funding was devoted to address global health challenges, and in particular epidemic diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This “new” age of global health was triggered in part by the catalytic work of activists around the world, and particularly HIV/AIDS treatment activists, who successfully campaigned for more access to these new life-saving drugs. When the global economic crisis hit in 2008, funding for these epidemic diseases began to plateau and even decline. The contemporary resurgence of populism, nationalism, and anti-immigrant sentiment present new challenges for activists and transnational models of health response. But the work of global health is far from done. What is the future of global health in 2019?

The free event is open to the general public. Lunch will be served.

Co-sponsors include: Yale School of Public Health; Yale Institute for Global Health; Yale Macmillan Center 
Council on African Studies; Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center; the Department of African American Studies; 
and the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy