This Harvard Center for African Studies in partnership with the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) hosted a virtual COVID-19 & Africa Webinar Series during summer and fall 2020. The Fall 2020 webinar schedule and links to the recordings are posted below. Access to the recordings is free and open to the public.
Webinars were hosted each Wednesday from 10:00am - 11:00am EST/EDT
Webinar Schedule
September 23rd- The Role of Digital Health & Telemedicine
September 30th - Current State and Priorities
October 7th* - Impact of Harvard Alumni in South Africa (*This session starts at 9:30AM)
October 14th - Expression of Arts and Culture
October 21st - Expanding Access to Mental Health
November 4th - Youth & Closing the Innovation Gap
November 18th - Meeting the Challenges of Higher Education in Africa
December 2nd - The Impact for Women
View the webinar recordings and read the reports: https://africa.harvard.edu/covid-19-africa-webinar-series
While our COVID-19 in Africa Webinar Series will not be offered during Spring 2021, the Harvard Center for African Studies will host a brand new webinar series: Africa Beyond the Headlines. Held on a monthly basis, Africa Beyond the Headlines is a virtual webinar event hosted by the Harvard Center for African Studies that seeks to explore and understand contemporaneous themes and issues in Africa. The hour-long panel discussion is hosted by a Harvard faculty moderator and seeks to include panelists representing academia, civil society, government, philanthropy, and the private sector. Each webinar will seek to situate the discussion in a regional, global, and historical context as well as explore underlying context not always evident in headline news reporting. Our aim is for the audience to come away with a deeper understanding of the narratives that do not always find their way into international reporting and begin a series of conversations across health, technology, economy, and the arts, among others.
To view the webinar schedule and register, click HERE.