​​​​​​​CID Speaker Series presents Alicia Ely Yamin Lecturer on Law and the Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at Harvard Law School; Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. She will discuss the lessons learned about the state of public health systems, global health equity and human rights during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This talk will explore what the pandemic revealed about the achievements and challenges to using human rights in order to contribute to more inclusive democracy and global health equity. It will argue that in a world ravaged by decades of disinvestment in public health, health systems, and social protection, along with an evident crisis of confidence in the capacity of political institutions and international governance to lead the way, the response is not “business as usual” legalism in human rights, but rather turning toward questions of political economy and working through networks and social movements.

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