• Book talk: ‘Why do some countries gamble on development, and others don’t?’
  Speakers:
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Author of the book and Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance)
  David Pilling (Africa Editor, Financial Times)
  Melinda Bohannon (Strategy Director, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office)
  Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance)
  Tuesday 3 May, 5pm - 6.30pm BST
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• Panel discussion: "On the trail of capital flight from Africa"
  Panel:
  James K. Boyce (Senior Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Professor Léonce Ndikumana (Director, African Development Policy Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Nicholas Shaxson (Author, journalist and investigator)
  Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance) (Chair)
  Wednesday 4 May, 5pm - 6.30pm BST - Online only
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• Decolonising Africa-Europe relations
  Speaker: Professor Carlos Lopes (Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance), chaired by Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
  Thursday 16 June, 5pm - 6.15pm BST
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• More events soon to be announced, featuring journalist Oliver Bullough and MPs Margaret Hodge and Andrew Mitchell

P4 healthcare and precision population health - a transformation of healthcare

Dr Leroy Hood

If one takes a systems approach to healthcare, it is obvious that it should be predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory (P4).

This can be accomplished, in part, by a vision which includes following the health trajectory of each individual with a data-driven (genome/longitudinal phenome) approach to, after proper analyses, optimise wellness and avoid disease. This is the essence of what precision population health should be. To achieve this object, Dr Leroy Hood, has proposed a “2nd human genome project”, termed Beyond the Human Genome, to analyse the genomes and longitudinal phenomes of one million individuals over 10 years with federal support. He has founded a non-profit company, Phenome Health, to develop the strategies and accumulate effective partners to carry out this initiative, which he will discuss in this talk.
 

Wednesday 25 May, 5pm - 6.15pm BST

Book talk: "Envisioning 2060: opportunities and risks for emerging markets

Harinder Kohli

The event will launch a book by the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF), a Washington DC based not-for-profit think tank focused on emerging economies.

The book takes a long-term perspective of emerging market economies through 2060. It highlights some of the fundamental and structural changes in the global economy accelerated by the pandemic as well as changes in geopolitics. It looks at the global megatrends, and the key issues such as climate change, rising inequality and inequities, fragility of international monetary system as well as rapid technological changes and their impact on the way we work that will heavily impact the future direction of most economies and societies. Finally, the volume highlights the fact that while many of the issues highlighted require joint actions at the global level, the current multilateral system is no longer geared to tackle them. It needs a major revamp as does the global economic governance.

This talk is organised by the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Development.
 

Tuesday 31 May, 12.30pm - 2pm BST