White Health and International Law
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December 4, 2024
Matiangai Sirleaf, professor at both the Carey School of Law the School of Medicine, and Dr. Seye Abimbola, a health systems researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health, will discuss recent scholarship that traces the development of global health as a field and critical recent reforms.
If you missed the event, you can watch the recording.
About the Speakers
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Matiangai Sirleaf, JD is an interdisciplinary international scholar, justice seeker, and human rights advocate who has worked to unearth unjust hierarchies embedded in international law and to remedy the inequities that emerge and persist. She is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Professor Sirleaf has published widely and extensively. Her areas of expertise include public international law, international human rights law, global public health law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law. Her current research projects are focused on race and the histories of international human rights and health inequality and the law.
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Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria, currently based at the University of Sydney in Australia, where his teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and scale up of health system innovations. Dr Abimbola was awarded the 2020-2022 Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for his work on justice in global health research. He is the editor in chief of BMJ Global Health.