Pandemic Discourses Wants Your Best Reads
Pandemic Discourses welcomes recommendations for the best reads on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conversations on the Frontline: The Future Politics and Geography of Vaccine Supply
Achal Prabhala, coordinator for the AcesssIBSA project which campaigns for access to medicines and vaccines, discusses the politics and shifting geographies of COVID-19 vaccine access.
Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization
The age of hyper-globalization requires global institutions to contain pandemics worldwide in a way that builds on international solidarity and human rights norms, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, co-editor of Pandemic Discourses.
Pandemic Discourses Open Submissions
Pandemic Discourses welcomes submissions from authors whose work addresses themes and questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pandemic Treaty Needs to Start with Rethinking the Paradigm of Global Health Security
Discussions about a new Pandemic Treaty underscore the imperative of rethinking the paradigm of global health security, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Paulo Buss, and Alicia Ely Yamin.
Conversations on the Frontline: Thinking Long Term and Building Local Capacity
Burcu Kilic, research director for Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program, discusses the complex web of COVID-19 intellectual property protection, and the new possibilities of emerging manufacturing capacity in the Global South.
Conversations on the Frontline: From the Politics of Solidarity to the Politics of Fear
In the second interview as part of our new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," public health consultant and lawyer, Rohit Malpani, discusses how since the HIV/AIDS pandemic there has been from a shift from politics to geopolitics, the new role that emerging economies play in the global landscape of COVID-19 vaccine access, and the importance of technology platforms.
Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline
Pandemic Discourses launches a new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," which will interview advocates about the politics and struggle of access to medicines.
Conversations on the Frontline: Pharmaceutical Companies – What is the Way Forward?
In the first interview as part of our new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," public health expert and senior policy advisor to the People's Vaccine Alliance, Mohga Kamal-Yanni, discusses how countries are at the whim of Big Pharma for supplying COVID-19 vaccines.