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SUMMARY:Global Pandemic Response\, Public Health and Sustainability - Spea
 ker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Tejas Rao
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the latest in the series of the Vice-Chancellor’
 s Lectures on Globalisation\, Sustainability and the Power of Ideas. \n\nD
 r Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\, the Director-General of the World Health Or
 ganization\, has kindly agreed to join us to deliver this edition of the l
 ecture.\n\n"Book your place":https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-pandemic-r
 esponse-public-health-and-sustainability-tickets-260582217427\n\n*About Dr
  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus*\n\nDr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected 
 WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seve
 ntieth World Health Assembly in May 2017. In doing so\, he was the first W
 HO Director-General elected from among multiple candidates by the World He
 alth Assembly\, and was the first person from the WHO African Region to he
 ad the world’s leading public health agency. Born in the Eritrean city o
 f Asmara\, Dr Tedros graduated from the University of Asmara with a Bachel
 or of Biology\, before earning a Master of Science (MSc) in Immunology of 
 Infectious Diseases from the University of London\, a Doctorate of Philoso
 phy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham and an Hon
 orary Fellowship from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\
 n\nDr Tedros has also received multiple national and institutional recogni
 tions\, including becoming the first non-American to be awarded the Jimmy 
 and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award in 2011 in recognition of his contr
 ibutions to public health\; the Decoration of the Order of Serbian Flag in
  2016\; the Danida Alumni Prize of Denmark’s Danida Fellowship Centre in
  2017\; being made a Grande Officier of the National Order of Benin (l’O
 rdre National de Benin) in 2018\; the L'Ordre national du Lion of Senegal 
 in 2018\; the Oswaldo Cruz Medal of Merit\, in 2018\, in recognition of hi
 s services to public health in Brazil\; the Grand Cross of the Equestrian 
 Order of Saint Agatha from San Marino in 2019\; the Bridge Maker Award of 
 the 14th August Committee of Norway in 2020\; 2020 Human Rights Award of t
 he Spanish Law Bar (Consejo General de la Abogacía Español)\; one of Tim
 e magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020\; the African of the Ye
 ar Award for 2020 of the African Leadership Magazine\; and Global Health L
 eader Award presented by Amref Health Africa in 2021.\n\n*About the Vice-C
 hancellor's Lecture Series*\n\nSince 2019\, the University of Cambridge ha
 s hosted a lecture series on Globalisation\, Sustainability and the Power 
 of Ideas. Its aim is to bring together international students\, researcher
 s and the wider community to consider emerging international policy\, law 
 and scientific trends and innovative solutions related to sustainability a
 nd globalisation\, and to debate how such ideas emerge\, are shared\, and 
 can change the world.\n\nThe lecture series is driven by the urgency to in
 spire and innovate the world’s best and brightest minds – current and 
 future generations of leaders\, teachers and researchers – to help find 
 ways to support globalisation that is open\, inclusive and sustainable. Sp
 eakers will address such questions as: What are the key challenges of glob
 alisation for sustainability? What are the most innovative and exciting ne
 w ideas\, tools and strategies in the global public interest? What is need
 ed\, for global public health in the context of pandemic preparedness\, re
 sponse and recovery\, in today’s changing society\, market and environme
 nt? How to build educational opportunities\, research\, practice and caree
 rs that make a contribution?
LOCATION:Online
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