Seminars and Events
Creating impact together
The Global Health Initiative brings together key health sector stakeholders from across the LSE, the UK and internationally to share information, data, projects, and practice. We provide a platform for exchange and collaboration both within the LSE and beyond it.
We host a range of regular events, seminars, and lectures ranging from internal events for LSE students and staff to public lectures and high profile invitation-only events. We do so both in order to inform our ongoing research through engagement with others and to raise awareness of LSE's rigorous social science approach to Global Health issues and challenges.
Here, you'll find upcoming and previous seminars hosted by the Global Health Initiative, as well as other Departments from across the LSE.
Upcoming events – 2025:
Past events:
Watch, act, vote: legislative theatre for health and climate justice
19 June 2025 | 18:00 - 20:00 | Shaw Library (Old Building)
Part of LSE Festival 2025: Visions for the Future.
How can creative participatory democracy help communities and policymakers co-create better health, housing, and climate policy, for a more equitable and sustainable future for all?
Take part in an interactive introduction to the Legislative Theatre methodology. For practitioners, activists, and policymakers, and anyone seeking new ways to inject accessibility, creativity and joyfulness into decision-making and systems change. The hands-on workshop will be followed by an open dialogue between Legislative Theatre practitioners, leadership of the Runnymede Trust, and LSE global health researchers, sharing outcomes from recent projects and investigating how Legislative Theatre could help communities collectively imagine and build a better, healthier future in the face of the climate crisis.
A future better than our past: Rethinking global health
15 May 2025 | 18:00 - 19:30pm | Marshall Building (Mar 1.04)
In Rethinking Global Health, Professor Rochelle Burgess reflects on and analyses the working of power in the global health field, with an emphasis on what power produces. In doing so, the book asks the pivotal questions of 'who is global health for' and 'what is it that limits our ability to meet people where they are?'
In this public lecture, Professor Burgess reflects on what the two frameworks in her book – the Matrix of Domination in global health, and Transformative Global Health - have to offer in a period radical transformation in the field. She will discuss pathways for action in a new era of global health which centres community narratives and social justice in these turbulent times.
11 March 2025 | 12:00 - 1:30pm | Marshall Building (Mar 2.04)
Professor Anna Holzscheiter joined us to discuss her recent co-authored paper in Social Science & Medicine, "Biobanking as a Contentious Issue in Global Health Governance: Diversification and contestation of policy frames in international biobanking debates."
Biobanks are an integral part of contemporary biomedical and biotechnological research, nationally and internationally. Over time, biobanking has also become invariably more transnationalised, following broader developments of biomedical research across borders. The manifold technical, legal, ethical and governance challenges resulting from such transboundary, potentially global, circulation of human specimens and related data, have to date not resulted in any binding, truly international agreement regulating transnational issues with biobanking.
In this seminar, Professor Holzscheiter presented an analysis on when and in what way biobanking has been subject to policy debates in international organizations, with a particular interest in the most prominent policy frames that have informed these debates.
14 March 2025 | 12:30 - 2:00pm | Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building (CBG 1.01)
Despite historical recognition, the LGBTQIA+ communities in India are still marginalised. Recent policy changes have created a window of opportunity but has been further complicated by global political scenario. There are parallels in challenges faced by the disability community. This seminar featured Dr. Harikeerthan Raghuram (LSE MSc HID alum) and Dr. Anant Bhan, co-leads at the initiative for Health Equity Advocacy and Research (iHEAR), hosted at Sangath a leading mental health research NGO in India. They spoke on the current policy landscape, some of the innovative work done by their team on healthcare access, medical education and mental health and discussed issues around ethics and justice in work with marginalised communities. This seminar would be of interest to anyone aspiring to work in the intersections of health equity, mental health and medical education especially in India.
The USAID shutdown and epidemic control: recent insights from the Uganda / DRC border
3 March 2025 | 5:30 - 7:00pm | Marshall Building (Mar 2.06)
This panel offered valuable insights on the impacts of the USAID shutdown, particularly as it relates to epidemic control on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Having just returned from the region, the panel held both current and longstanding contextual knowledge and expertise on the politics of development assistance for health. They reflected on urgent questions that are preoccupying observers of the fast-moving political events currently taking place in the USA and Central Africa. They considered whose lives are put at risk by the USAID shutdown, who is served by alarmist discourses and what the effect of ending pandemic surveillance and US funding will be on the spread of Mpox, cholera, Marburg, Ebola and HIV/AIDS. Finally, the discussion focused on how the termination of USAID funds in this part of the world has global implications, as it interacts with security and trade of essential resources for the technology sector.
Dr Ritu Sadana, WHO Head of Ageing and Health: An economy for well-being – we must build this together
26 November 2024 | 12pm | Centre Building (CBG 1.06)
Dr Sadana discussed with us what it means to build an economy of wellbeing that serves all stakeholders not only shareholders, and that puts people and planet at the center of policy and decision making. This seminar raised ideas on guiding and seeking out investments and rewards, based on common values and a broader fiscal framework, that is coherent with the economics of well-being. Dr Sadana also shared some learning on ways to draw in private finance that support the objectives of sustainable development and align economics, social and health goals. Finally, in the context of increasing longevity, the seminar considered that investments in every stage of life, that increase opportunities, greater choice, and a longer health span, could allow people to re-imagine how lives could unfold.
Hosted by Global Health Initiative, Ageing@LSE and Department of International Development.
16 October 2024 | 12.30pm | Marshall Building (MAR.2.06)
Join us and the award-winning Community Health Impact Coalition at LSE to discuss the impact of community health workers (CHWs). Acknowledging that despite decades of investments, half of the world still lacks access to healthcare, the panel will explore the renewed momentum for CHWs, the impact of their life-saving work, and what change is needed to set them up for success.
How can countries prepare for the next global health crisis? | LSE Festival
The World Health Organization has established an intergovernmental negotiating body with the purpose of drafting an agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Yet the outcome may be so weak that we see less cooperation than before the COVID-19 pandemic, with devastating consequences for human life when the next global health crisis strikes.
The panel will assess the prospects for meaningful progress, and discuss how power, politics and public opinion are affecting international pandemic response and preparedness, including the crucial question of access to vaccines and other medicines.
Nutrition governance in Mexico: barriers and facilitators
Dr Paola Abril Campos Rivera, Director of the Evidence and Action for Health Equity (EVIS) research centre at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, will discuss her research on nutrition policies and governance in Mexico.
WHO's new Pandemic Hub: building global institutions at a time of polylateralism
Hassan Damluji, a Senior Visiting Fellow in LSE's Department of International Relations, outlines the design principles, strategy, progress and challenges of the WHO Pandemics Hub in Berlin, a flagship initiative of Germany's G7 presidency in 2021.
In Conversation with Kate Kelland
What does a future free from pandemics look like? How can the world learn from its past mistakes? What solutions do epidemic preparedness and response experts offer?
Join Kate Kelland, Chief Scientific Writer at CEPI and Clare Wenham, Associate Professor of Global Health Policy at LSE, for a discussion on how to prevent the major pitfalls in pandemic response. This discussion will delve into the issues by drawing on Kate's newly-published book DISEASE X – The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics, which features her insights from health security experts, examining epidemics and pandemics of the past and present to describe what governments and institutions can so easily get wrong in their responses to events like the COVID-19 pandemic and other devastating disease outbreaks.
From Strategy to Delivery: lessons on scaling innovative technology from the COVID-19 pandemic
Dive into the world of healthcare innovation as we explore the critical moments that defined our global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover the essential elements that led to the successful deployment of cutting-edge technologies on an unprecedented scale, and learn how these invaluable lessons can be applied to future global health challenges.
Emma Hanney, FIND's Chief Access Officer and leader of the ACT-Accelerator Diagnostics Partnership, will share her expertise and experiences in global health strategy and delivery. With an impressive background in implementing health systems reforms in complex operating environments, Dr Hanney's insights will illuminate the path to rapid technology scaling in times of need.
Speaker: Dr Emma Hanney
Date: Wednesday, 19 AprilThis event is hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Department of Health Policy
The Future of Global Health Architecture and Blended Health Financing
Invest in the future of global health by attending Michael Borowitz's lecture on blended health financing and the global health architecture.
Join us on Thursday 23rd March 2023 for a Global Health Initiative lecture by Michael Borowitz, Chief Economist at The Global Fund, on the future of the global health architecture and blended health financing.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility and inadequacy of our global health architecture. As we look to the future, it is clear that we need new models of health financing and governance to achieve greater health equity and resilience. Blended health financing, which combines public and private sector resources, offers a promising approach to filling gaps in health financing and increasing access to essential health services.
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola The Untold Story
What happens to pregnant women when a humanitarian catastrophe strikes?
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood and Ebola by Benjamin Black is the inside story of what it was like to face a terrifying epidemic in West Africa that, in two and a half years, resulted in 28,600 cases and 11,325 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Will the permacrisis of the 2020s catalyse new universal health reforms?
Robert Yates, Director of the Global Health Programme at Chatham House, discusses research on successful post-crisis transitions to universal health. This event explores the works of the Chatham House's Commission for Universal Health in identifying opportunities for universal health reforms, building awareness of the findings among governments and multilateral organisations and developing clear policy options to address coverage shortfalls, strengthen health systems and accelerate progress towards universal health.
Story to Strategy: The Art and Science of Shaping Global Health
Story to Strategy: the Art and Science of shaping global health -A Talk by Professor Gavin Yamey
How can university-based researchers more actively shape global health policymaking in ministries of health and finance, bilateral and multilateral health agencies, foundations, and non-government organisations?
Breaking the cycle: poverty & mental health in young people
Join us for the CHANCES-6 Student event to hear about the project’s latest findings, based on data from 6 low- and middle-income countries. This event is open to students and early career researchers from universities around the world and will provide an opportunity for them to interact, discuss and to reflect on the findings from the CHANCES-6 project, nased on six low-and middle-income countries in relation to young people living in different countries and contexts. Participants will also be able to consider the relevance of the findings for their country/context, along with the next steps for the field in relation to research, policy and practice.
Date: 29 March 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Auditorium, CBG / OnlineThis event is hosted by the LSE Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Digital health and rights: Early findings from research in 5 countries
This event presents the preliminary findings from The Digital Health and Rights Project on digital transformation in HIV and Covid-19. Panellists will unpack how young people experience the digital transformation in HIV, Covid-19, and sexual and reproductive health - including opportunities and risks to privacy, autonomy, and equality. The results will be used in policy advocacy to promote rights-based governance of digital health. At the end of the presentations, a discussant will share critical reflections.
Date: 10 March 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: NAB 2.04, New Academic Building / OnlineThis event is hosted by the Global Health Initiative
This event with Winnie Byanyima, the feminist activist who leads the UN’s response to HIV and AIDS and who chairs the People’s Vaccine Alliance for COVID-19, will highlight lessons rooted in ongoing experience from the AIDS response and the commonalities between the two pandemics, as well as learnings from other health crises, to set out an approach that can actually succeed in keeping us all safe.
Date: 03 March 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:15
Venue: Auditorium, CBG / OnlineThis event is hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Department of Health Policy
COVID-19 and Violent Extremism: gender perspectives
Though focus is often placed on the government response to COVID-19, the pandemic has also allowed for violent extremist groups to both leverage and capitalise off the effects of COVID-19 which impacts both women and men differently.
Date: 03 June 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by the Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Academic experts from LSE’s Department of Health Policy in the fields of pandemic response, social care and health inequalities will consider pandemic response from a number of different angles, comparing responses across international health systems and decision-making and suggesting what the next steps should be for the UK and internationally.
Date: 03 June 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
COVID-19 and Africa: pandemics and global politics
A panel of leading African commentators will reflect on the global response to the health dimensions of the pandemic in Africa.
Date: 01 June 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
Addressing the Pandemic: the pharmaceutical challenges
This webinar, as part of LSE's Public Lecture Programme, will exmaine a range of issues related to the development and use of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. This includes the range of incentives for innovation and national approaches to purchasing, price negotiations, intellectual property and trade policies.
Date: 26 May 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by the Global Health Initiative and LSE's Public Event Series
While the COVID-19 response of Africa’s 54 countries has been far from uniform, it has been remarkable. Experts from the LSE’s African Health Observatory Platform are joined by colleagues from the School of Medicine in Addis Ababa to discuss African approaches to the crisis and reflect on some unique data collected by the platform on individual country response.
Date: 22 May 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by the Department of Health Policy and the African Health Observatory Platform
Latin America is being hit by the virus and by a number of adverse economic shocks. How can the region’s democracies preserve both lives and livelihoods? What will be the impact on the region’s already low economic growth and high inequality? Five former Latin American heads of state bring their knowledge and experience to bear on these difficult questions.
Date: 22 May 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19: from mortality to misery?
In the current crisis, government policies, such as physical distancing, are paying enormous attention to the mortality risks of COVID-19 to the exclusion of the wellbeing hits borne elsewhere (e.g. mental health, loneliness, domestic violence, child welfare, physical health, and addiction). Is this as it should be when lives are at stake? If not, what can be done to ensure that misery is placed on a more equal footing with mortality?
Date: 21 May 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
The impact of the Corona pandemic in countries already wracked by years of war and violent extremism is difficult to fathom. This webinar will address questions such as are the ceasefires taking place and holding? If there is a shift towards political solutions and local conditions, is this not the key opportunity for the full participation of women peacebuilders?
Date: 12 May 2020
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Centre for Women, Peace and Security
General Petraeus will develop his model of strategic leadership, developed during a senior military career and as leader of a large government agency, and what it implies for management in the context of a pandemic.
Date: 11 May 2020
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
Looking back at COVID-19: how will Africa have changed one year from now?
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact across Africa, with the full social, economic and political implications yet unknown. To different extents African governments have imposed lockdowns, closed borders and seen development initiatives upended at a time when they are needed most. In this webinar experts on development and humanitarianism in Africa outline their predictions in the face of the current crisis. By looking ahead, the speakers highlight emerging challenges and assign priorities as events unfold.
Date: 07 May 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa
The COVID-19 Crisis Response: Putting Women at the Centre
Perhaps more than previous epidemics, COVID-19 has demonstrated that whilst outbreaks can affect anyone, women are often differentially affected – within the home, within the economy and within policy space. This seminar considered the role of women in leadership and the impact of COVID-19 on women.
Date: 29 April 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by Centre for Women, Peace and Security, the Institute of Global Affairs and the School of Public Policy
Global Leadership to Support Africa's Response to COVID-19
In this online public event, speakers discuss the challenges facing African countries and lessons from the Ebola crisis, and explore how countries can best respond to the macro crisis caused by the collapse of natural resource prices and trade, capital flight, and disrupted global supply chains.
Date: 29 April 2020
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
This unprecedented global crisis requires an unprecedented global response. The first contours of such a response are slowly emerging, but there are important missing pieces and the speed and scale are not sufficient. Most of the measures taken so far have come from the international financial institutions, with the G20 Leaders slowly catching up. The G20 Finance Ministers meeting and the IMF Spring meetings took place last week and we know have a G20 Action Plan. Regional leaders have also taken steps to address the crisis in their respective regions. This panel will take stock of where we are and what needs to happen in coming months.
Date: 21 April 2020
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by Institute of Global Affairs and the School of Public Policy
COVID-19: A Gender Perspective on the Growing Humanitarian Crisis
A virtual discussion on gender-responsive approaches to mitigating COVID-19 and global strategies for addressing the pandemic's impact.
Date: 08 April 2020
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Officially the Syrian authorities have only recently acknowledged coronavirus cases in Syria. Others believe that the situation is far worse in a country that has been decimated by nine years of conflict, crises and deliberate targeting of the health sector. The speakers discuss the current coronavirus related challenges and what can be done to mitigate the spread of the virus.
Date: 07 April 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Conflict Research Programme
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations.
Date: 11 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Thai Theatre, New Academic BuildingThis event was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
Where Are We on Global Health?
With 10 years to go, will the world meet Sustainable Development Goal 3: ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages? Podcast available here.
Date: 06 March 2020
Time: 19:30 - 20:30
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic BuildingThis event was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
Climate change measures and rhetoric, whether intentionally or not, can have a negative impact on the rights and freedoms of less powerful groups, notably women in the Global South. This panel discussion presents inter-disciplinary exchange, drawing on expertise from across the LSE in climate change, demography, migration, gender, and reproductive rights. Podcast available here.
Date: 06 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic BuildingThis event was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
This event brings together experts from academia, front line health practitioners and NGOs to showcase research related to mental health in conflict or post conflict settings. The panel event will be followed by drinks and a poster display, showcasing current research on mental health and conflict from across the School. Podcast available here.
Date: 13 February 2020
Time: 17:30 - 19:30, followed by reception
Venue: Shaw Library, Old BuildingThis event was hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre
Universal Health Coverage: The Student Edition
UHC or Universal Health Coverage is an increasingly relevant topic, however often it can be hard to understand what we can do as students. This is a collaborative event between 4 organisations - Students for Global Health (SfGH), Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), Action for Global Health (AfGH) and the Global Health Initiative (GHI) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Each organisation brings together their respective strengths to an evening of learning and engaging discussions.
Date: 09 December 2019
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Acadmeic BuildingOrganised by:Students for Global Health, Tropical Health Education Trust, Action for Global Health and the Global Health Initiative
What Does Value for Money in the Aid Sector Mean?
What does value for money mean and why is it so hard to measure? This talk will attempt to answer this thorny question by laying out some of the contextual factors that give rise to these challenges as well as sharing perspectives from applying theory in practice on global health programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: 02 December 2019
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Cowdray House, Room 1.11
Engaging in the Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage
This seminar presents a critical perspective of the political economy of UHC. Mr Robert Yates will review recent UHC transitions at different income levels and highlight the importance of genuine political commitment to overcome barriers and bring UHC to the people.
Date: 6th November 2019
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Centre Building, Yangtze Theatre
This seminar presents a critical perspective of global health and the Zika outbreak. Dr Gustavo Matta challenges the "global" perspective and suggests we need to develop an engagement and understanding of health, democracy and scientific knowledge, embedded within the global south discourse.
Date: 7th October 2019
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Venue: Cowdray House, Room 1.11
Incentivizing the Development of Novel Antibiotics: New Paradigm Needed?
We are pleased to welcome Dr Michael Sinha from Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science for this seminar on antibiotic development. This talk will review and critique existing US proposals in this area while proposing alternative solutions to address an arguably dysfunctional antibiotic marketplace.
Date: 5th September 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Graham Wallas Room (AGWR), Old Building 5th floor
Information shocks and provider responsiveness: evidence from interventional cardiology
Professor Carol Propper examines physician responses to global information shocks and the impact on patient outcomes. She shows how patients treated by cardiologists who respond slowly to news shocks have fewer adverse outcomes.
Date: 25th June 2019
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Graham Wallas Room, Old BuildingOrganised by: Department of Health Policy
Global Health: inequalities, interventions and biases
To ensure that people live long and healthy lives it is important to know what kills different groups of people in different places. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) based on the Disability-Adjusted Life Year has been developed to do this. This lecture shows how this measure leads to various anomalies and biases, in particular it underestimates the health problems experienced by women and children.
Date: 18th June 2019
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Old Theatre, Old BuildingOrganised by: International Inequalities Institute
Department Seminar- A Caring Society - the crisis in plain sight?
In this seminar, Baroness Ros Altmann, CBE, who is a Visiting Professor in Practice in the Department of Social Policy, will be looking at how British policymakers deal with caring for aging family and loved ones.
Date: 30th May 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Internal Seminar: Basic Instinct? Fertility and Genes
This paper uses data from UK Biobank, which contains detailed genetic information on 500,000 individuals born between 1934 and 1971, to study to what extent genetic endowment affects women’s fertility behaviour and the role of gene-environment interactions in shaping these processes.
Date: 22nd May 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: KSW G.01Organised by: Health Policy
Navigating the global workforce crisis in healthcare
In his new book, Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare, Britnell, KPMG’s Global Chairman for Healthcare, confronts the all-important question: How will we provide adequate healthcare for 8.5 billion people by 2030?
Date: 8th May 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: 32L.LG.04
Department of Health Policy Launch Event
This official launch event will explore some of the most pressing contemporary issues in health policy globally. The day’s agenda includes keynote addresses from two Nobel Prize winners, Sir Christopher Pissarides and Dr Denis Mugweke.
The conference will feature interactive panel discussions with LSE faculty and be chaired by leading experts. There will also be a round table discussion led by LSE Director Dame Minouche Shafik with a group of high-profile guests from government and international institutions.
You can see the full programme and register here.Date: 30th April 2019
Time: 11:00 - 19:45
Venue: Old Theatre, Old BuildingOrganised by: Department of Health Policy
This annual two-day conference engages policy makers, business leaders and researchers in discussion on solutions to Africa's most pressing issues. Click here for the full programme.
Date: 30th - 31st March 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:30Organised by: LSE Africa Student Society and the LSE Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa
This presentation reports expected impact on life expectancy, deaths averted, and inequality in life expectancy from scaling up recommended cost-effective and equitable actions for promotion, prevention and treatment of CMNNs, NCDs and injuries in low and lower-middle-income countries. Implications for national and global priorities will also be discussed.
Date: 8th March 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Venue: Graham Wallas Room, Old BuildingOrganised by: Global Health Initiative
Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline
In this blow-by-blow account, Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson expose the often shocking shortcomings of the humanitarian response to the outbreak, both locally and internationally, and call our attention to the immense courage of those who put their lives on the line every day to contain the disease. Theirs is the definitive account of the fight against an epidemic that shook the world.
Date: 28th February 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Venue: Vera Anstey Room, Old BuildingOrganised by: Global Health Initiative and the Firoz Laliji Centre for Africa
The Drugs Aren't Working! Confronting the Crisis of Superbugs
Growing resistance to antibiotics is one of the most significant current threats to global public health.The interdisciplinary panel sitting across International Development, Health Policy, Government and International Relations will each address the challenge of growing resistance to antibiotics, providing a solution from their disciplinary viewpoint with questions and comments submitted in the days leading up to the event fed into the discussion.
Date: 26th February 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic BuildingOrganised by: Global Health Initiative, part of the LSE New World (Dis)Orders series
One hundred years after the influenza pandemic, a novelist, a science writer and a population health specialist discuss the social impact of pandemics through time, and how virus, quarantine and contagion continue to inspire our dystopian literary imaginations.
Date: 21st February 2019
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: The Shaw LibraryOrganised by: part of the LSE New World (Dis)Orders series
Sleep Deprivation Among India's Urban Poor
Dr Heather Schofield looks at the effect of heavy exposure to factors such as noise, stress, and overcrowding which disrupt and limit sleep and the subsequent health consequences of sleep deprivation for the urban poor in India.
Date: 12th February 2019
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Venue: Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor Old BuildingOrganised by: Global Health Initiative
Global health in an unequal world: The real Grand Challenges
In this seminar Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy at Newcastle University’s Institute of Health and Society, will argue that the most important Grand Challenges in global health arise from increasing economic inequality and the public policies that reflect and reinforce it, and from the tension between legitimate aspirations of the majority of the world’s people and the biospheric implications of meeting them.
Date:22nd January 2019
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Fawcett House (TW2), 9.05Organised by: Global Health Initiative
Pandemics, Pills and Politics: Governing Global Health Security
What happens – politically, economically, and socially - when governments try to protect their populations with pharmaceuticals? Do citizens around the world ultimately stand to gain or lose from this pharmaceuticalization of security policy?
In this seminar, Stefan Elbe will present his latest book Pandemics, Pills & Politics, in which he explores these questions through the story of the world's most prominent medical countermeasure – Tamiflu.
Date: 17th January 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: The Graham Wallas Room, 5th Floor Old BuildingOrganised by: The Global Health Initiative
Avoiding the Avoidable: comparative approaches to patient safety
This lecture will consider the latest international thinking on approaches to patient safety and the future challenges and opportunities this presents for health care leaders.
Date: 13th December 2018
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Venue: Wolfson Theatre
An interdisciplinary space for reflection and collaboration between young researchers and and scholars with an interest in mental health in Latin America from a social science perspective.
Women, Global Health and Social Justice: From silences to solutions
This event will feature three leading academics working at the intersections of gender, global health and social justice fields in the African Continent.
Date: 27 June 2018
Organised by: Firoz Lalija Centre for Africa
Speakers: Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Dr Catherine Campbell & Dr Ernestina Coast
Chair: Dr Rochelle Burgess
The "difficult question": choosing to provide or not provide abortion in Zambia and its impact on the delivery of safe and equitable abortion services at primary and community health levels
Series: LSE Health Policy
Date: 30 May 2018
Time: 12:30-13:45
Organised by: LSE Health Policy Department
Speaker: Dr. Emily Freeman
Ten Reasons we are wrong About the World- and why things are better than youthink
Date: 11 April 2018
Organised by:Department of International Development and the Global Health Initiative
Speakers: Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling
Chair:Dr. Tiziana Leone
In their new book Factfulness, Professor of International Health Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, offer a radical new explanation of why this happens and reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspectives.
Introduce or Not to Introduce?- Prioritization for New Vaccines in Uganda
Date: 21st March 2018
Organised by: Department of International Development & Global Health Initiative
Speaker: Professor Peter Waiswa
Professor Waiswa details the investigation into immunization in Uganda from a health policy perspective. Given the competing governmental costs, what vaccines merit prioritization and how might we calculate their value?
Universal Health Coverage in the Global South: What is Needed to Make it Work?
Date: 22 February 2018
Organised by: LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0
Speakers: Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Professor Ken Shadlen, Dr. Daniel Wang
Chair: Dr. Justin Parkhurst
Although Universal health coverage is a pillar of the modern welfare state, the successful design and implementation of arrangements to deliver on this promise faces enormous challenges.
This panel, with perspectives from health policy, law, and political science, examines these challenges and reflects on national experiences in developing countries.
LSE Global Health Initiative Launch
Date: 24 October 2017
Organised by: Global Health Intiative
Speakers: Professor Elias Mossialos, Professor Catherine Campbell, Professor Tim Allen
Chair: Professor Julia Black
The Global Health Initiative is a cross-departmental research platform set up to increase the coherence and visibility of Global Health research activity across the School, both internally and externally. It provides support for interdisciplinary engagement and showcases LSE’s ability to apply rigorous social science research to emerging global health challenges.
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