WILL THE PANDEMIC CHANGE HEALTHCARE FOREVER? – With Rob Yates of Chatham House and Rebecca Riddell of New York University

We finally talk healthcare on EQUALS. Could the pandemic trigger
the creation of universal healthcare systems around the world?
What can we learn from Thailand and Costa Rica? What is
privatization doing to healthcare in Kenya? And who is
undermining healthcare for all?


Liz, Nabil and Max chat to Rob Yates (Director, Global Health
Program, Chatham House) and Rebecca Riddell (Co-Director, Human
Rights and Privatization Project, NYU Law School Center for Human
Rights and Global Justice).


The NYU CHRGJ, in collaboration with a leading Kenyan human
rights organization, Hakijamii recently launched a report on
Kenya’s healthcare system. The report finds “that the
government-backed expansion of the private healthcare sector in
Kenya is leading to exclusion and setting back the country’s goal
of universal health coverage”.


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If you’re joining us on EQUALS for the first time, tune in to our
earlier interviews – from talking with the award-winning
journalist Gary Younge on what we can learn from Martin Luther
King Jr to fight inequality, to best-selling author Anand
Giridharadas on whether we need billionaires, Zambian music
artist PilAto on the power of music, thinker Ece Temelkuran on
beating fascism, climate activist Hindou Ibrahim on nature, and
the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
Kristalina Georgieva on what comes after the pandemic.


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