Corrado Cancedda of Botswana University spoke about it to the students. Tuesday 16 the next seminar on international cooperation.
9th November 2021 - It was held as part of the inter-faculty course on university development cooperation aimed at students and employees UCBM the seminar "Global Health: the planetary challenge at the time of the Coronavirus pandemic". To talk about the dr. Corrado Cancedda, Director of the Botswana University of Pennsylvania Partnership and Strategic Advisor for Academic Partnerships at the Perelman School of Medicine's Center for Global Health.
A guest with over 15 years of experience as a clinician, educator, researcher and scholar in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Lesotho who underlined that the challenge for population health in the global context must start from the analysis of the real needs of the population and from the study of all aspects that determine the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not only understood as the absence of disease. In this sense, Cancedda explained, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought out the problems related to the Global Health ecosystem, influencing all the objectives of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. Talking about a global health system cannot therefore ignore the issues that each individual national health system poses, in terms of rights and services offered to the citizen. An issue that links public health management with political and social equity issues, noting how "countries that have recorded a high number of deaths from Covid-19 are also the countries with greater political polarization and high social diversification", Cancedda explained.
For this reason, the post-pandemic requires a collective effort involving all levels and actors responsible for the functioning of the global system. This has practical implications, such as the allocation of common funds for health and research but also the establishment of collaborations between different national systems. To achieve these goals, second Giovanni Mottini, professor UCBM of development cooperation, "the culture of solidarity represents the most effective and most incisive fuel for the sustainability of the improvement".
"It is important to create sustainable education programs by designing replicable partnership models between local and foreign academic institutions. Universities have an absolutely central role in Global Health. You cannot get results without their presence. Academic institutions in rich countries have enormous potential to also support the development of institutions in poorer countries. We need to pay attention to the significant gap between what the university values for the student's career and what really needs to be done in society". underlined Cancedda.
"This area includes the Third Mission activities of universities that want to transfer the skills and acquisitions of research to the service of those who need it most, with so-called socially oriented biomedical research. These are fundamental fields to be cultivated to obtain results in human development of the student. For this reason theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is committed to offering its contribution to creating a real one science of university cooperation" he concluded Giovanni Mottini.
These issues will also be addressed in the Next appointment of November 16th in which he will speak Roberto Ridolfi, President of Link 2007 and former director of Planet and Prosperity and Ambassador of the European Union.
