The four-day event brought together 21 senior African health professionals with academic researchers to discuss the pasts, presents and futures of Public Health and Health Systems on the African continent.
David Bannister (now a research fellow with two major research projects, Epidemic Traces and Connecting 3 Worlds) initiated the workshop and organized it with Sarah Howard from the Connecting 3 Worlds project. The UNIVERSAL HEALTH team, Jacinta Victoria Muinde, Tom Neumark, Jamie Wintrup and Ruth Prince collaborated in planning and organizing the event, together with colleagues from the University of Oslo (Professor Christoph Gradmann and Dr Peter Mangesho), Birbeck College, University of London (Sarah Howard and Sarah Marks), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
(Professor Martin Gorsky), the National University of Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM (Edna Suárez-Díaz, and Gisela Mateos), and Dr Walima Kalusa from the University of Eswatini.
The workshop was a collaborative event, co-organized and co-funded by:
- EU Horizon 2020, European Research Council Project: Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa, University of Oslo.
- Wellcome Trust Project: Connecting Three Worlds. Socialism, Medicine and Global Health since 1945, Birkbeck, University of London, Exeter University, Humboldt University, and the National University of Mexico.
- Wellcome Trust Project: Health Systems in History, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- the University of Oslo, and the Christian Mikkelsen Institute, Bergen.
Transcriptions from the event will produce an open-access archive alongside other outputs and collaborations - including one that has already been initiated with the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism.
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