Webinar: Global Vaccine Justice / Vacunas y Justicia global

Eduardo Rueda

A series of seminar discussions (webinars) will be held in advance of the conference “Development in times of conflict: ethical pathways towards peace and justice,” the Twelfth Congress of the International Development Ethics Association. The second of five planned sessions, “Global Vaccine Justice,” with focus on the current status of COVID-19 vaccination globally includes presenters Ames Dhai, of the Steve Biko Center for Applied Ethics, Gabriela Arguedas, of University of Costa Rica, and Sridhar Venkatapuram, of King’s College London. The conference that follows is planned to take place in Medellín, Colombia, in 2022. Further details, including a renewed call for papers, will be available Fall 2021. 

Registration information and further event details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-vaccine-justice-tickets-159539144877

Global vaccine justice  Wednesday July 7, 10:00 – 11:30 Colombia time (GMT-5)

Moderator:Eduardo Rueda, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, REDETICA and Red latinoamericana y caribeña de Educación en Bioética

Discussants:

1.  Ames Dhai,Founder and Past Director of the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Witswatersrand University.

2.  Gabriela Arguedas,Bioethicist, University of Costa Rica.

3.  Sridhar Venkatapuram, Senior Lecturer in global health and policy, King’s College London. 

The session is a joint product of members of the Universidade Autónoma Latinoamericana (UNAULA), Universidad de Ibagué (UnIbague), Red para la formación ética y ciudadana (REDETICA), the International Research Group for Global Health Justice (IRG-GHJ), and the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA).  This is the second of a series of sessions presented in advance of theIDEA Twelfth Congress, an effort of the same group of organizations that is now planned for summer 2022.