G20, Pandemics & Inequality

Dr. Matthew Kavanagh together with Sir Michael Marmot of UCL, Hon. Monica Geingos former first Lady of Namibia, Nobel Laureate Prof Joseph Stiglitz, and Min. Joe Phaahla of South Africa at the G20 Health Ministerial on October 29th, Rio De Janeiro

Throughout 2024 the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics team, together with the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS, and Pandemics, engaged with the G20 processes and the Health Working Group under Brazil’s presidency. We produced a set of background research and convening on the issue of how to address the ways that inequality is driving pandemics through access to medicines and diagnostics and the social determinants of health. G20 Health Ministers picked up several of these pieces in the Health Ministers Declaration. You can see some of our work below:

• Convening on Addressing the Inequality Drivers of Pandemics through the G20: A special event organized for the G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministerial, the Brazilian government and experts from the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics backed calls for efforts to break the “inequality-pandemic cycle” that is fueling continued disease emergencies. Watch the event here.
• Discussion Paper on Local & Regional Production: Leveraging a G20 Alliance on Local and Regional Production to Expand Global Manufacturing of HIV-Related Technologies developed for the G20 Health Working Group.
• T20 Briefing: G20 Policy Briefing on Pandemics, WHO Global Governance and the Pandemic Instrument/Treaty/INB Process by Deisy Ventura of University of Sao Paulo, Matthew M Kavanagh, Georgetown University, and Luiz AZ Galvao, Fiocruz developed for the T20 Working Group 6 on Strengthening Global Governance.