Archives - Program 2019

How can we prevent the spread of haemorrhagic viruses such as Ebola within a divided and weakened Global Health system that only seems to respond when West is threatened?

The epidemic potential of diseases such as Ebola has revealed not only the weaknesses of national health systems, but also the gaps in the World Health Organization, fragmented and dominated by Western countries’ internal security priorities rather than by a comprehensive approach to public health management. Finally, conflict and political instability prevent the establishment of credible national public health surveillance networks and the ability to control global epidemic threats. Faced with these constraints, how can we create a fair and equal global health policy? Survivors offers an immersion experience at the heart of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014, revealing the complexity of a deeply political and social outbreak.
This event will be held in English.

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Co-presented with the Graduate Institute and Doctors Without Borders (MSF)