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Pandemic Laws, Pandemic Politics: How is Inequality Driving Today's Pandemics?
Effective vaccines for COVID-19 were developed in record speed; HIV drugs can now be deployed to stop both death and the spread of the HIV virus through remarkable long-acting injections; tests for both viruses can be done in a few minutes at home. But whether they will be, who will get them, and whether they will be used successfully to stop these viruses — these are legally and politically determined.
This talk explores the ways political institutions, ideas, and interests drive the laws available and deployed in a pandemic and that laws, in turn, have a powerful and systematic effect of on the course of pandemics. The recent failure of many global health institutions, this talk argues, lies not in technical or financial gaps but in flawed political analysis. This can and must be remedied to stop future pandemics.
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Matthew Kavanagh, PhD, is the Director of Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Policy & Politics, a cross-campus collaboration across the School of Health and O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. He is also Assistant Professor of Global Health and Visiting Professor of Law. More about his bio here.
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The Global Health Centre (GHC).
