Join the launch of “Breaking the inequality-pandemic cycle – building true health security in a global age”

Date: Monday, 3 November 2025
Time: 15:00 South Africa Standard Time (13:00 GMT)/08:00 ET

The event will launch the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics report, Breaking the inequality-pandemic cycle – building true health security in a global age.

The launch comes ahead of the G20 meetings, chaired by South Africa, which have focused attention on the challenge of inequality. 

The Center’s Matthew Kavanagh, a Council member, played a key role in producing the report. As part of its role as a UN Collaborating Center, the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics is helping co-organize the event with UNAIDS.

Nozipho Mbanjwa-Tshabalala will interview leading voices including:
§  Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
§  Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist 
§  Monica Geingos, former First Lady of Namibia
§  Michael Marmot, Institute of Health Equity at University College London
§  Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, South Africa
§  Nísia Trindade, Former Minister of Health, Brazil
§  Javier Padilla Bernáldez, Secretary of State for Health, Spain
§  Joe Phaahla, Deputy Minister of Health, South Africa
§  Richard Lusimbo, Director General of the Key Populations Consortium, Uganda
§  Nomonde Ngema, HIV youth activist, South Africa

Link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdatXrry8b4