SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 ; 4.30 PM – 6 PM ET; LUCE HALL, ROOM 202, NEW HAVEN Event Description: Join Y-RISE and the South Asian Studies Council as we host the launch of Scott MacMillan's book Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty tracing the evolution of BRAC, one of the world's largest NGOs. The book launch will be followed by a moderated panel discussion, during whic...

Event Description: This Y-RISE conference aims to bring together representatives from academia, government, civil society, and philanthropy to share insights on what has been done so far and discuss future action around vaccine equity. Sessions will focus on vaccine inequity in the developing world; economic, public health and policy measures to reduce inequity; last mile delivery of vaccines in the developing world and scaling up programs to deliver masks and vaccines.

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Panelists: Anir Chowdhury (Policy Advisor, A2i – Government of Bangladesh); Mushfiq Mobarak (Professor of Economics, Yale University), Sabina Rashid (Dean and Professor at James P Grant School of Public Health), and Asif Saleh (Executive Director, BRAC)

Moderators: Maria May (Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and Mark Miller (Senior Research Fellow, ODI)

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Panelists: Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Professor of International Finance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School); Ghazala Mansuri (Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction and Equity Group, World Bank); Nausheen Anwar (Professor City & Regional Planning, IBA, Pakistan)

Moderator: Sarah Khan (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University)

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