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Multiple outbreaks of mpox are posing enormous response challenges across Africa, just as Rwanda confronts its first outbreak of Marburg virus, all in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and The Conversation Africa for a timely conversation on the evolving mpox outbreaks; resource needs from vaccines to diagnostics, the coordinated response of WHO and Africa CDC to disease outbreaks from Ebola and COVID-19 to mpox and Marburg virus, and long-term legal reforms needed to protect communities from dangerous disease outbreaks.
Speakers:
- Dr. Ashish Jha, Brown University School of Public Health
- H.E. Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director-General of Africa CDC
- Kashish Aneja, O’Neill Institute
- Dr. Matthew Kavanagh, O’Neill Institute
- Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
Panel moderated by: Professor Lawrence O. Gostin, O’Neill Institute