3rd Global Team Meeting In Oxford, United Kingdom On 11th July 2024.

The Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health project held its third global team meeting on 11th July 2024 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. This one-day hybrid event included partners and representatives from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Atuire Caesar, opened the meeting by presenting the overall progress. Each team then outlined their current and upcoming activities in line with the project's goals and discussed plans for the next twelve months, focusing on facilitating research uptake.  

Solidarity In Global Health Workshop At 2024 Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference

On 10th July 2024, the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health project team organised a workshop where global health practitioners discussed findings from the project’s consultative meetings conducted in Ghana and Guinea on the practice of solidarity in global health. 

 The workshop was part of the annual Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference, which fosters multi-disciplinary debates and addresses ethical concerns in global health conception and implementation. 

Professor Caesar Atuire Elected President of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB)

Dr. Caesar Atuire’s election as President of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) was announced at the World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar on 3rd June 2024. Atuire becomes the 15th president of the IAB and the first black person to be appointed to this position. 

During his inaugural address, Dr. Atuire said, “The current world in which we are living is different from the world within which bioethics as a discipline was born...perhaps we need to we reinvent in order to address the challenges of this world in the next decades” 

Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric In Global Health Project Second Global Meeting

 

The Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health Project research team held its Second Global Team In-Person Meeting at the Coconut Grove Beach Resort in Elmina, Ghana, from 22nd to 25th November 2023. The meeting was a fruitful opportunity for the team to consolidate the knowledge and experience from the Anglophone Africa Regional Workshop, evaluate the project journey for the year 2023, and plan the project activities for 2024-2026.