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Gagan Gupta: Mobilizing Infrastructure and Supply Chains to Enhance Trade and Investment in Africa
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Gagan Gupta, co-founder of Arise IIP, Arise IS and Arise P&L, a
bout COVID-19’s impacts on trade trends in Africa and the infrastructure priorities for accelerating the economic recovery.
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Frank Aswani: Strengthening Africa’s Social Investment Ecosystem to Help Tackle COVID-19
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Dr. Frank Aswani about ways to bolster Africa’s social investment e
cosystem to help the continent’s economic recovery from the pandemic.
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Esther Krofah: Vaccines, Variants, and Lessons for the Next Pandemic
Esther Krofah, executive director of FasterCures, talks to COVID-19 Africa Watch about the public
health lessons learned so far from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dr. Dennis Carroll: How Can We Prevent the Next Pandemic?
“The viruses that we do know are only those that have already caused great harm, but we know that
that’s less than 1 percent of all the viruses that have that same potential. Those viruses are currently circulating in wildlife today.
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COVID-19’s Impact on the Agri-Sharing Economy in Africa: An Interview with Hello Tractor’s Folu Okunade
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Folu Okunade, Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Operating Officer,
Hello Tractor, about the pandemic’s impacts on small-scale farming and the burgeoning ‘agri-sharing’ economy in Africa.
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Chinelo Anohu: What the Future Holds for Attracting Investment to Africa
COVID-19 Africa Watch talks to Senior Director of the Africa Investment Forum, Chinelo Anohu, abou
t how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the AIF’s approach and the overall investment landscape across the continent.
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Advancing Sustainable Development Goals Despite the Pandemic: Interview with Professor Allam Ahmed
Prof. Allam Ahmed, founding President of the World Association for Sustainable Development, speaks
to COVID-19 Africa Watch about financing the SDGs, human capital, and access to electricity.
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Dec. 7 at 4:30 pm ET | Is Digital Health a Bridge to Health Equity and Representation?
Systemic health-care inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic included minority under-represent
ation in research and disparities in care.
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Dec. 7 at 4:30 pm ET | The Silent Patient at Work: How Employers Are Doing More for Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health
The CDC reported a record 93,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2020. Though addiction may yield to
COVID-19 in the news, this grim number tells that the addiction crisis rages on, exacerbated by the effects of necessary social distancing measures.
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Leading Amid Change
November 16 at 11:00 am SGT
COVID-19 crystalized much-needed transformations confronting communit
ies and institutions.
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Real Assets Investment in the Years Ahead
November 15 at 10:50 am SGT
Investments in real assets have historically proved challenging becau
se of issues of liquidity and lack of transparency.
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Virtual Program | A Conversation with Kathy Ireland: The Power of Branding - Connecting in the Age of COVID-19
November 15 at 10:30 am SGT
From supermodel to super mogul, Kathy Ireland is the embodiment of th
e power of the personal brand.
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