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Munk School: COVID-19 and the World’s Grand Challenges

May 8, 2020 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 pm

What impact will COVID-19 have on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How will the pandemic affect our ability to access vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations, particularly where health systems are already constrained and have limited resources? Will the global health and economic implications of the pandemic render it impossible to achieve the SDGs by 2030? Does this crisis present an opportunity to address inequality and work toward sustainability in new ways?

In this Munk School / Innovation Policy Lab online event, join experts Anita McGahan, Joseph Wong and Karlee Silver for a deep dive into how COVID-19 will affect our efforts to address the world’s grand challenges.

Moderated by Anna Maria Tremonti, Host of CBC’s More with Anna Maria Tremonti podcast and former host of The Current.

Speakers:

Anita McGahan, University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society, Rotman School of Management and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Joseph Wong, Vice-Provost & Associate Vice-President, International Student Experience, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and Professor, Department of Political Science

Karlee Silver, Co-CEO, Grand Challenges Canada

To submit questions in advance, please email events.munk@utoronto.ca.

Register to attend the online event.

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