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Special note: This event will be held online. Attendees will be sent the zoom information for this event TWO HOURS before the event, via an email from Eventbrite.

Global health partnerships are widely lauded as a mechanism for strengthening health systems and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While many examples of global partnerships between high-income countries (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) exist, they do so within complex historical, social, political and economic contexts that can perpetuate deep structural inequities between HIC-LMIC collaborators. Collaborators engaging in global health partnerships must contend and redress imbalances in their partnership arrangements in order to engage in equitable and reciprocal exchange to achieve outcomes that could not otherwise be achieved alone.

The School of Public Health (MUSPH) at Moi University, Kenya, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto, Canada, are academic institutions that have embraced partnership as a core value and are committed to improving health and achieving health equity for their communities and all people worldwide. Building on a longstanding history of collaboration, both institutions renewed their partnership in 2021 as a reaffirmation of their shared public health interests and to continue to co-create research and educational opportunities in areas of mutual benefit.

In this session, hosted as a side event in the inaugural International Conference on Public Health in Africa 2021, members of the MUSPH and DLSPH partnership will share their approach to building, strengthening and sustaining reciprocal partnerships between HIC and LMIC academic institutions. Panelist will share their reflections on the unique opportunities and challenges for innovations in public health that this partnership has enabled. Time will be allotted at the end of the panel discussion for a Q&A with session participants.

At the end of this session, participants will:

1. Be able to describe the key characteristics and outcomes of a reciprocal global health partnership;
2. Gain insight into a LMIC-HIC partnership experience;
3. Be able to identify success factors and pitfalls in a reciprocal global health partnership.

Agenda

7:00-7:05 – Introductory remarks by moderator: Ophelia Michaelides
7:05-7:20 – Panelist reflections from MUSPH Dr. Dean Nangami
7:20-7:35 – Panelist reflections from DLSPH: Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero
7:35-7:45 – Panel discussion:
7:45 – 7:55 – Q&A from participants
7:55 – 8:00 – Closing remarks

Panelists

– Ophelia Michaelides (Moderator), Manager, Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
– Dr. Mabel Nangami, Professor, Moi University School of Public Health, Moi University; Dean, Moi University School of Public Health, Moi University
– Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero, Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Registrants will receive a link and password for the webinar TWO HOURS before the event. A recording of the event will be made available on the DLSPH YouTube page.

Questions? Email us at globalhealth.dlsph@utoronto.ca

Download: Networks and Partnership in LMICs – Building Reciprocal Global Health Partnerships