Webinar 138: AIDS 2022, Monkeypox, COVID-19 and the Fate of Global Health

A panel with Oyewale Tomori, professor of virology

Inequities in global health are on full display in the uneven access to COVID-19 vaccines across the world. But we see it manifest in many other ways, such as the controversy surrounding the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal and this year’s decision to ‘globally’ respond to Monkeypox, a disease that African countries like Nigeria and DR Congo have been dealing with since the 1970s.

On our next webinar, we will be hosting a veteran expert on global health, Dr. Oyewale Tomori, and together we will be providing insights on the global health relevance and impacts of the recently concluded AIDS 2022 conference that was marred with visa issues, the Monkeypox outbreak that is now a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and the COVID-19 which continues to be a PHEIC.

This week’s Forum guest, Dr. Tomori, will bring insights on this issue from decades of work in global health. In addition to serving as a professor, he is chairman of Nigeria’s Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19. His research interests include Ebola hemorrhagic fever, yellow fever and Lassa fever. He served as the regional virologist for the World Health Organization Africa Region before he was appointed as the pioneer vice chancellor of Redeemer's University, Ogun State, Nigeria. He holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Nigeria’s Ahmadu Bello University and a Ph.D in virology from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria.