On Monday 14 March 2022, we co-hosted an event on vaccine inequality with Global Justice Brighton Youth at Friends Meeting House. Speakers included Nick Deaden (Global Justice Now), Fatima Hassan, (Health Justice Initiative, South Africa) and Megan Schmidt-Sane (Institute of Development Studies, UK).
Global vaccine inequality is the result of our broken pharmaceutical industry, rooted in colonial history that extracts from the Global South to enrich the Global North. Economic rules designed by rich countries drive record profits for multinational companies and block the demands of countries in the Global South to gain control over vaccine production.
The talks focused on how countries in the Global South are fighting back against the profit-driven pharmaceutical system, and what we can do to transform health provision globally to dismantle these colonial dynamics.
