Global Health

26 June 2025- The Global Health Solidarity Open Forum took place on June 25, 2025, under the theme ‘A Solidarity of the Shaken? From Despair to Collective Action’. The virtual gathering brought together over 150 attendees including researchers, civil society organisations and activists, practitioners, and scholars from 33 countries. The event aimed to explore how solidarity can shape responses to global health challenges amid shifting political and funding landscapes. 

A Better and More Just World Order Centred on Health/Wellbeing Equity.

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.

Two members of our team, Dr. Samuel Asiedu (Research Coordinator) and Prof. Elysee Nouvet (Co-investigator) represented the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health research team at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar.  

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” 

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.

In this feature, the Principal Investigator of the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health Research Project, Prof. Caesar Atuire, explains the need for solidarity, the objectives of the project, and his inspiration for taking up this project.

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The Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health team members attended and played varying roles at the Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference 2023 which took place on 26th and 27th June 2023 at the Keble College in Oxford University, United Kingdom. Outstanding for the Global Health Solidarity team was the workshop held on the Global Health Solidarity Project.

From front left; Ms. Agathine Asamaoning, Mr, Ashish Giri, Elysee Nouvet, Dr. Samuel Asiedu Owusu, Mr. Elias Wiess, Prof, Barbara Prainsack, Dr. Alice Norton, Ms. Mary Ndu, Prof. Jantina De Vries, Prof. Caesar Atuire, Prof. Bridget Pratt, Dr. Anye Nyamnjoh and Prof. Gabriela Arguedas