Events (Speaking Engagements / Conferences / Webinars)
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- 18 September 2024. Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice 2024.
Speaker: Fatima Hassan (HJI Director)
Access the lecture and video here. - 4-5 September 2024. Competition Commission 18TH Annual Competition Law, Economics & Policy Conference
25 Years of Competition enforcement: Looking Back to look Forward
Title of session: ’’ Using competition law for the progressive realisation of constitutional rights’’
AT 00:34:00 – 1:30:30 Youtube Video
- 18 September 2024. Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice 2024.
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- 27 April 2023, Why Health Justice Matters, The COVID Pandemic – Global South Lessons, Reflections and Intersection with Climate Justice Conference. Session 5: “Technology Sharing Initiatives in the Global South including the mRNA Hubs: Exploring Pros, Cons, and Future Directions for Equity”
Host/s: Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association (ABIA), People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA), Vacunas Para la Gente (PVA LAC), Public Services International (PSI), Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign (MSF), Rethink Trade, Third World Network (TWN), Oxfam LAC, and the Federation of Organs for Social and Educational Assistance (FASE)
Speakers: Professor Brook Baker (virtual), Fatima Hassan, Sotiris Missailidis - 16 January 2023, How to build a health commons approach to pandemic preparedness and response.
Host/s: DNDi, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, & Friends of the Independent Panel
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan
- 27 April 2023, Why Health Justice Matters, The COVID Pandemic – Global South Lessons, Reflections and Intersection with Climate Justice Conference. Session 5: “Technology Sharing Initiatives in the Global South including the mRNA Hubs: Exploring Pros, Cons, and Future Directions for Equity”
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- 1 December 2022, World AIDS Day – Hazel Tau Commemoration Webinar
Speaker/s: Hazel Tau, Doris Tshepe, Mapato Ramokgopa, Fatima Hassan, Brook Baker, Vitor Ido, Hardin Ratshisusu
Host/s: Competition Commission SA, Health Justice Initiative
Access The Price of Life here. - 24 November 2022, Annual conference of the Dutch Society for International Health and Tropical Medicine in Amsterdam, Plenary Speaker: Fatima Hassan
- 17 November 2022, How can disclosing clinical trial costs increase access to medical products? A discussion to explore practical implementation of disclosing clinical trial costs: why should this be done and how? Fatima Hassan
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5-6 November 2022, Dublin Symposium on What does “Fit-for-Purpose” Biopharmaceutical Regulation Look like for Underserved Populations in the global South post-COVID-19? Host/s: Dalhousie University (Health Law Institute) and Health Justice Initiative
Fatima Hassan and Marlise Richter - 20 September 2022, KEI webinar on measures to enhance the transparency of COVID related contracts and funding agreements
Speaker/s: James Love, Roz Scourse, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) - 13 September 2022, Symposium on Contemporary Issues in Global Studies: ‘Intellectual Property, Technology, Culture and Health’ – panel 4
Speaker/s: Hu Yuanqiong, Fatima Hassan, Frantzeska Papadopoulou
Host/s: Linkoping University - 4 August 2022, Optimising access to diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Indonesia (UI)
Fatima Hassan - 1 August 2022, AIDS 2022 / Health equity for all
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan, Gregg Gonsalves, John Nkengasong, Charles Gore, Jennifer Kates (Moderator)
Host/s: IAS - 2 June 2022, Peoples Vaccine Alliance Ireland Conference Host/s: Oxfam Ireland / PVA conference
Fatima Hassan - 6 May 2021, Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Host/s: DAWN, TWN
Fatima Hassan - 5 May 2022 – informal briefing to CSOs – “Overview of 3 HJI cases for Pandemic Transparency on Vaccine Contracts and Prioritisation”
F Hassan M. Richter and Y. Nokhepheyi - 30 March 2022, CUGH 2022 – PL10 – Annual Global Health Plenary Moderator Tom Quinn. Debaters- Fatima Hassan and George Rutherford. The Debate Question; Be it resolved that Global Priorities Should Supersede National Priorities in Vaccinating People During a Pandemic Speaker/s: George Rutherford, Fatima Hassan, Tom Quinn (Moderator)
Host/s: Consortium of Universities for Global Health - 28 April 2022, COVID-19 conference
Host/s: Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE), Yale University
Fatima Hassan - March 2022, Decolonising Vaccines; UK Speaking Tour (Cambridge, Leeds, London, Brighton) Host/s: Global Justice Network
Fatima Hassan and Marlise Richter - 10 February 2022, Pandemic and Global Democracy Crisis
Speaker/s: Barbara Unmüßig in conversation with Katja Keul, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
- 1 December 2022, World AIDS Day – Hazel Tau Commemoration Webinar
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- 16 December 2021, How to End Vaccine Apartheid – A FP Virtual Dialogue
Speaker/s: Minister Naledi Pandor, Thomas Cueni, Kate Elder, Fatima Hassan, Sai D. Prasad, Dr. Stavros Nicolaou, Sasha Polakow-Suransky,
Host/s: Foreign Policy - 15 December 2021, COVID Policy Equity
Fatima Hassan - 9 December 2021, ISC Progressive Forum Panel – S Korea Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan
Host/s: International Strategy Centre (ISC) Progressive Forum - 8 December 2021, Intersessional Seminar on Access to Medicines and Vaccines in the Context of the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health
Speaker/s: Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, Jane Barratt, Nizia Trindade, Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Deprose Muchena, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: United Nations – Human Right Commission - 7 December 2021, (ICASA) SAHTAC, CHReaD & APHA breakfast webinar
- 6 December 2021, WHO Pandemic Ethics & Policy Summit – Session 3: Towards Global Health Justice
Speaker/s: Caesar Atuire, Fatima Hassan, Ilona Kickbusch, Ruth Faden (Moderator)
Host/s: World Health Organization - 21 November 2021, ICJ-GHLC Consensus Conference, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan
Host/s: International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - 18 November 2021, Global Summit on Intellectual Property & Access to Medicines (GSIPA2M) Virtual Pre-Summit – 20 Years Since Doha – Reimagining Access
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan
Host/s: ITPC - 22 October 2021, From Vaccine Apartheid to a People’s Vaccine: How the campaign for vaccine justice can help us build a fairer economy (The Green Party Fringe Conference)
Fatima Hassan - 22 October 2021, 15th ANNUAL COMPETITION LAW, ECONOMICS AND POLICY CONFERENCE: Session titled- “The pharmaceutical industry: access to vaccines, diagnostic kits and related products during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Speaker/s: Judge Dennis Davis (Moderator), Fatima Hassan, Dr Clive Ondari, James Hodge, Host/s: Competition Commission SA, - 19 October 2021, the Humanitarian Congress Berlin HCB21: Power in play: Vaccine nationalism and the decolonisation of global health
Speaker/s: Dr Marlise Richter, Micah Voss, Ashal Rabala Host/s: Médecins Sans Frontières, Berlin - 14 October 2021, Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG)
Speaker/s: S’lindile Khumalo, Yanga Nokhepheyi, Tabitha Paine, Dr Marlise Richter (Facilitator) Host/s: Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwaterad - 13 October 2021, Yale GHJP and LPE Vaccine Access Webinar – HOW TO VACCINATE THE WORLD
Speakers/s: Fatima Hassan, Dr. David Kessler, James Krellenstein, Zain Rizvi – Moderated by Amy Kapzynski
Host/s: Global Health Justice Project (GHJP) and the Law and Political Economy Project. - 9 October 2021, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines Fall Conference: Student Response to Racial Inequity in Access to COVID-19 Medicine
Speaker/s: Dr Manual Martin, Molly Lepeska, Fatima Hassan, Priti Krishtel, Ruqaiijah Yearby Host/s: Universities Allied for Essential Medicines - 2 October 2021, IDWeek: Global Inequities in Infectious Diseases: Implications Beyond the Pandemic, Cleveland Clinic
- Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan, Garry Procop, Louise C Ivers Host/s: Infectious Diseases Society of America
- 27 September 2021, Zero Covid Conference – Labour Conference Fringe – No one is safe until everyone is safe
Host/s: Zero Covid International Movement
Fatima Hassan - 5 Aug 2021, Review of African Political Economy and TWN Webinar
“From ARVs to COVID-19 Vaccines: Vaccine Imperialism: Scientific knowledge, capacity and production in Africa – What lessons can be learnt from the struggles of the Treatment Action Campaign and access to medicines?”
Marlise Richter - 20-21 July 2021, Disease Prevention & Control Summit
Host/s: Terrapinn
Fatima Hassan - 15 July 2021, My Vote counts webinar, “Best Election practices during a pandemic”
Marlise Richter - 5 May 2021, Patients in a Pandemic: From Advocacy to Protecting rights and balancing responsibilities in an exhausted healthcare system
Speakers/s: Dr Sandile Buthelezi, Dr Stavros Nicolaou, Karessa Govender, Elroy Paulus, Dr Marlise Richter, Joan Van Dyk - Host/s: Ethics Alive seminar by Wits Students’ Bioethics Society
- 17 April 2021, Public meeting on the issue of vaccine nationalism Speakers/s: Vijay Prashad, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: Global Ecosocialist Network - 15 April 2021, Yale Healthcare Conference – Session: Global Disparities in COVID-19 Response Speakers/s: Fatima Hassan; Petra Khoury
Host/s: Yale University - 14 April 2021, Fair, Equitable and Timely Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccines in Africa – Session 2 –Public Good, Solidarity & Building Capacity
Speaker/s: Dr Phionah Atuhebwe, Dr. Marlise Richter, Dr Ann Lindstrand, Dr. Morena Makhoana Host/s: UNESCO, SAMRC, UNISA - 14 April 2021, Skoll World Forum Session: Using the COVID Crisis to Build a More Just Medicine System
Speaker/s: Tahir Amin, Leena Menghaney, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: Skoll Foundation - 30 March 2021, Reflections on Equity & Social Justice of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa Speaker/s: Dr. Marlise Richter, Oluseun Onigbinde
Host/s: Global Integrity Insider and others in the Account4COVID webinar series - 26 March 2021, Covid 19 Response in Africa: Unpacking the Vaccine Situation
Speaker/s: Dr Amadou Alpha, Fatima Hassan, Dr. Nicaise Ndembi, Prof Souleymane Mboup, Host/s: Open Society Initiative for West Africa - 25 March 2021, Overcoming Barriers to Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines Speaker/s: Tahir Amin, Fatima Hassan, Gagandeep Kang, Kai Kupferschmidt (Moderator) Host/s: McGill University: Global Health Programs
- 20 March 2021, Care 2021: Covid-19 and Racial Equity Speaker/s: Mark Dybul, Fatima Hassan, Charlie Petty Host/s: Northeastern University
- 18 March 2021, Managing Trade, Health & Equitable Access to Medicines in a Pandemic
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan, Professor James Bacchus, Professor Brook K. Baker
Host/s: Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) - 17 March 2021, Joint Symposium on Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Access in Southern Africa Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan; Professor Shabir Madhi
Host/s: Oxfam, Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - 16 March 2021, Global Challenges and the COVID Vaccine: What’s the price tag and who will pay? Speaker/s: Dr. Susan Sparkes, Ben Akabueze, Prof Srinath Reddy, Dr. Hannah Kettler, Fatima Hassan, Mohamed Mustafa Diab, Can Zhang, Dr. Gavin Yamey (Moderator) Host/s: Duke University: Global Health Institute
- 11 March 2021, ICJ, SAIFAC Webinar: What are the Obligations of States and Corporations to make the COVID-19 vaccine accessible to all?
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan, Professor David Bilchitz, Sharifa Sekalala
Host/s: International Commission of Jurists – Africa; SAIFAC; Constitution Hill Education Project - 10 March 2021, Global Rally for a People’s Vaccine
Host/s: Global Justice UK Fatima Hassan - 9 March 2021, Covid-19 and global vaccine inequality: views from the Global South Speaker/s: Carlos Correa, Fatima Hassan, Martina Neuwirth, Werner Raza (Moderator) Host/s: Das Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC), ÖFSE – Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung, Austrian Development Cooperation
- 7 March 2021, CROI 2021: Opening Session – Martin Delaney Presentation – Vaccine Nationalism is Killing Us: How Inequities in Research and Access to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Will Perpetuate the Pandemic
Speaker/s: Fatima Hassan; Gregg Gonsalves (Plenary) Host/s: IAS-USA - 5 March 2021, Marlise Richter “Vaccine Apartheid and Vaccine Elitism” Presentation to MiCoSA
- 5 March 2021, Access for all: The long road ahead for South Africa’s vaccine rollout Speaker/s: Marlise Richter, Leslie London, Russell Rensburg, Sharon Ekambaram Host/s: ACMS
- 4 March 2021, Equitable procurement and allocation of C19 vaccine in South Africa and the role of the private sector
Speaker/s: Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, Leslie London, Fatima Hassan
Host/s: People’s Health Movement (PHM) - 25 February 2021, ILRIG (International, Labour, Research & Information Group) Webinar Speaker/s: Lydia Cairncross, Fatima Hassan, Dr Benjamin Kagina, Dr Dale McKinley (Moderator) Host/s: ILRIG
- 24 February 2021, Webinar on COVID-19 vaccines roll out plans in Southern Africa: Leaving no one behind”: Promoting democratic accountability and public oversight in the distribution of the COVID- 19 vaccines in Southern Africa
Host/s: The Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN), Africa Judges and Jurists Forum (AJJF)
Fatima Hassan - 9 February 2021, Alternative Mining Indaba – Impact of COVID19 on mining communities Speaker/s: Yusuf Ayami, Claude Kabemba, Sophia Takuva, Fatima Hassan, Tom Butler, Moreblessings Chidaushe (Moderator)
Host/s: AMI - 3 February 2021, Trade, Patent Law and Vaccine Procurement during the Covid-19 pandemic:Issues and Lessons for the Global Southv
Speaker/s: Zane Dangor, Fatima Hassan, Professor Franziska Sucker
Host/s: The Mandela Institute at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand - 2 February 2021, IAS COVID-19 Conference Prevention: Session title: COVID-19 and the Policy
Speaker/s: Jennifer Kates, Fatima Hassan, Seth Berkley, Peter Sands Host/s: International AIDS Society
- 16 December 2021, How to End Vaccine Apartheid – A FP Virtual Dialogue