Panelists

• OB Sisay OBE, Gambia Country Head and Senior Global COVID-19 Adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
  Lara Fairall, Professor of Healthcare Delivery at the Global Health Institute at King’s College London
• Martin Prince, Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at King’s College London

 

This expert panel considers the ways in which the Coronavirus pandemic has revealed, perpetuated or challenged prevailing discourses and structures of knowledge concerning the African continent. It explores the extent to which new spaces and ways of working are emerging that can enhance the pursuit of collaborative knowledge-building across academic, policy, practitioner and activist communities in Africa, and the degree to which global lessons can and should be drawn from African experiences and actors. What role can research collaborations in Africa play in finding solutions to global health challenges? What are the major challenges and promising areas of work as we look to the future?

 

Bios

OB Sisay OBE, is former Director of the Situation Room at Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Centre and currently Gambia Country Head and Senior Global COVID-19 Adviser at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

Lara Fairall is Professor of Healthcare Delivery at the Global Health Institute, King’s College London and Director of the  Knowledge Translation Unit, University of Cape Town.

Martin Prince is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at King’s College London, where he is Assistant Principal (Global Health) and Director of the King's Global Health Institute.