Southern Regionalisms, Global Agendas: Innovating Inclusive Access to Health and Medicines in a Context of Social Inequity

An international conference (invitation-only), organised and hosted by the OU's PRARI project, to explore how regional integration can be harnessed to support social equity in development. Participants include representatives from global agencies, research institutes, universities, regional organisations and NGOs spanning Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, Switzerland, UK and the US.
 
Abstract
The global system that has emerged in the early 21st century has generated vigorous debates amongst scholars, policy-makers and activists worldwide about how to enhance social standards, extend the coverage of social provision, strengthen health systems, and improve population health, well-being and security. These debates, long aired in national spheres of governance, are also now being taken to regional fora where state and non-state actors are mobilising around a set of policy agendas that ask how regional integration can be harnessed to support social equity in development.
 
Panel Sessions

• Access to health and medicines: Regional diplomacy for inclusive development?
• Embedding social equity and health in regional governance: Participatory approaches
• Implementing the SDGs on health and poverty: What role for regions?
• Innovating regional and inter-regional action for universal health and social protection coverage: What is to be done?

Read more in the PRARI Conference Concept document.

NB The conference is by invitation only. If you would like further information, please contact: PRARI@open.ac.uk