Please join us on April 11 in this webinar on COVID-19 Knowledge In/Equity - A Mutual Learning Space, hosted by the Knowledge Equity Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough. [*see note below]
Description
The enormous racial and social class inequities associated with illness and death from COVID-19 across the world have been much discussed (if little addressed). But the knowledge inequities undergirding this situation are less known.
COVID-19 Knowledge Equity - A Mutual Learning Space is a collaborative and participatory workshop taking place on Monday, April 11 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST online via Zoom. This session will discuss three aspects of how COVID-19 media coverage, research, and policies have entrenched inequities in global health knowledge production and sharing:
The exclusion of Indigenous Knowledge around the ecological origins of COVID-19, pandemic management, and traditional therapies;
Long-standing power relations that hierarchize knowledge inequity as they relate to COVID-19 vaccine innovation, production, and access in the Global South and;
The lack of recognition of successful early public health responses in the Global South.
The workshop is scheduled for 60 minutes in a public and recorded session, followed by a 30-minute round-table discussion with experts in global/international health, knowledge equity, and access to medicines.
Registration link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAocu2srTojEtX_O8B8hnM3pLPMJ4...
Best
Leslie Chan
Director, Bioline International and Knowledge Equity Lab
University of Toronto Scarborough
HIFA profile: Leslie Chan is Director of Bioline International, Canada. Professional interests: Leslie Chan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Science at the University of Toronto, where he serves as the Program Supervisor for the International Development Studies program. His teaching and research interests center on the use of information technology and knowledge for development. Since 2000, he has being serving as the Director of Bioline International http://www.bioline.org.br, a collaborative open access platform that provides free access to peer reviewed journals from close to 20 developing countries. Leslie is one of the founding editors of OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook, www.openoasis.org, a web site that provides practical resources for implementing open access to scholarly research. chan AT utsc.utoronto.ca
[*Note from HIFA moderator (Neil PW): Many thanks Leslie, these topics are highly relevant to HIFA. Would any HIFA member like to volunteer to participate and share your observations on HIFA afterwards? Leslie, please do invite all participants to continue discussion on HIFA after the webinar.]
