Webinars
Promoting interdisciplinary dialogue at LSE
The Global Health Initiative brings together diverse panellists to discuss interdisciplinary global health issues. We host and promote public and private webinars, encompassing a broad range of global health topics topics, both of a national and international focus.
Here, you'll find upcoming and previous webinars hosted by the Global Health Initiative, as well as other Departments from across the LSE.
Upcoming webinars:
All upcoming webinars will be listed here
Past webinars:
Feminist Global Health Security
A book launch for Feminist Global Health Security by Dr Clare Wenham. At this book launch, speakers discussed the need for gender mainstreaming in global health security. Taking Zika as its primary case, but also touching on more recent experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, Feminist Global Health Security asks what the policy response to disease outbreaks tell us about the role of women in global health security.
Date: 23 June 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:30 BST
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative, Department of Health Policy and the Latin America and Caribbean Centre
COVID-19: Africa’s Vaccine Challenge
This event discussed what vaccine (and heath technology) equity means for global management of the pandemic, and what challenges remain for health systems as vaccine rollout is operationalised.
Date: 21 June 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:30 BST
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Department of Health Policy, Global Health Initiative, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa and the African Health Observatory - Platform on Health Systems and Policies
The Geopolitics of Health in the Middle East
Regional politics in the Middle East continues to have a cumulative impact on health, affecting health systems capacity and delivery of services. Conflicts in the region are deeply influenced by historical, ethnic, cultural and political factors. This event will discuss the geopolitical barriers to strengthening health systems in the region, presenting a country case study comparison of Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq.
Date: 10 May 2021
Time: 12:00 - 13:30 BST
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Middle East Centre
From drug development to drug affordability, the medicines system affects who lives and who dies. While the healthcare system gets a lot of public scrutiny and accountability, the medicines system does not. Priti Krishtel, health justice lawyer and co-founder of I-MAK, explains how in the midst of a global pandemic that is disproportionately costing Black and Brown lives, it is critical that we deepen our collective understanding about the medicines system and the structural racism that is embedded within it.
Date: 06 May 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 BST
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Department of International Development
The Power to Say Yes, The Right to Say No
Natalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, will discuss why bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to advancing human dignity and equality, prosperity and peace, and sustainable development that leaves no one behind.
Date: 29 March 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00 BST
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
How Much is Your Health Worth? The Human and Economic Value of Health in the Era of COVID-19
As part of our online public events programme, we are pleased to invite you to a unique session with: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization; Mariana Mazzucato, Chair of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All and Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) and author of Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism; and Clare Wenham, Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at LSE.
Date: 17 March 2021
Time: 12:00 - 13:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Department of Health Policy and the Global Health Initiative
This webinar will review how the COVID pandemic has affected global UHC transitions and present a country case study comparison of India and the United States of America (USA) to highlight the importance of genuine political commitment from the head of state to overcome political barriers and bring UHC to different settings. Panellists will discuss the importance of health agencies needing to improve their performance in engaging in issues relating to the political economy of UHC.
Date: 10 March 2021
Time: 12:15 - 13:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
What is Colonial about Global Health?
Part of the LSE Festival 2021, this webinar addresses the legacy of colonialism within international health systems and ask: what is the relationship between histories of imperialism and health, development and human rights? How can international institutions be reformed to overturn the global North’s dominance in health programming?
Date: 03 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative and the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa
An event to launch That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880-2020 by Graham Dutfield. In this book launch symposium, jointly hosted by LSE Global Health Initiative and Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, Professor Dutfield will be accompanied by four commentators: Dr Paul Fehlner (Axcella Health, formerly of Novartis), Dr Burcu Kilic (Public Citizen), Professor Ken Shadlen (LSE), and Dr Siva Thambisetty (LSE). Professor Uma Suthersanen (QM) will Chair the event.
Date: 17 February 2021
Time: 13:30 - 15:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative and Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute
The SALURBAL project: life expectancy and mortality profiles in 363 cities of Latin America
The usual conceptualization of the "urban advantage" in health ignores the possibility of heterogeneities in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized data set from the SALURBAL project, we described variability and predictors of life expectancy and proportionate mortality across 363 cities of 9 Latin American countries.
Date: 10 November 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by the Department of Health Policy
This seminar presents the findings of our research project, which analysed the intersection of Zika, regulation and medical abortion through a comparative case study of Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador.
Date: 03 November 2020
Time: 15:00 - 17:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
Lives Versus Livelihoods: Evaluating policies to address COVID-19
In this webinar, panellists will discuss the value of these tools for assessing policies that impact health and wealth. Panellists will also discuss the usefulness and limitations of formal modelling, the impacts of policies that intend to suppress the virus, and those that instead attempt more lenient control of the spread. Finally, panellists will examine how feasible policies and associated trade-offs depend on country circumstances.
Date: 27 October 2020
Time: 17:00 - 18:30 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Global Health Initiative
Anti-Vaxxers and Other Sceptics
Will a future COVID-19 vaccine be undermined by anti-vaxxers? This event will discuss the causes of and cures for distrust in medical expertise.
Date: 20 October 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:15 GMT
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by the Forum for Philosophy
Re-thinking Human Behaviour: Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of COVID-19
This event will focus on the social and community based aspects of human behaviour and health, and the importance of going beyond a purely individual or top-down paternalistic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: 07 October 2020
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
Immigration into Eastern Europe: New challenges
Central and Eastern Europe is increasingly a place of immigration as well as emigration – of returning migrants, of increasingly dynamic movement by EU citizens, and of non-EU economic migrants and refugees. How is the region responding?
Date: 27 July 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar is hosted by LSE IDEAS
COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan
The event will explore how governments in South Asia are tackling COVID-19 and will focus specifically on Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Date: 22 June 2020
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
Implications of the COVID-19 Crisis for Disability Policy
This panel event will explore the potential implications for disability policy of these possible futures under the political and socio-cultural themes. It will explore questions including whether the ‘vulnerability’ framing is likely to inform future policy and what the implications are for disabled people’s lives, communities and activism.
Date: 23 June 2020
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by LSE's Public Event Series
The Impact of COVID on Global Health: A comparative look at the African region
As Africa responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have shifted health agendas and funding to focus on outbreak preparedness and management. However, how has the outbreak impacted pre-existing health concerns? How have responses differed regionally? Panellists will discuss individual country policy responses and the impact of COVID on health services.
Date: 29 June 2020
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Venue: Zoom WebinarThis webinar was hosted by the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and the Global Health Initiative
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 was 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
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 2020Time: 14:00 - 15:30Venue: Zoom Webinar
This 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