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Civil Society Solidarity: Building Bridges across Global Health Advocacy in Crisis Times

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If the current pandemic has taught us nothing else, it’s that we are all in this together. In 2020, all eyes turned to global health in a way that most of us who live and breathe this work on a daily basis could not have imagined. As the pandemic continues to surge around the globe, we know it is critically important to rally advocates from the various global health priorities to coordinate our collective demands of policymakers to meet the needs of vulnerable groups worldwide. We also recognize the power of leveraging each other’s messages and networks to call attention to those asks and make them even more influential.

The transition of events to a virtual format has limited civil society participation in the age of COVID-19. How can we push back on that trend and what lessons have we learned so far? Panelists will share their experiences and insights on barriers or breakthroughs for civil society advocacy across multilateral fora and convenings. Speakers also will highlight additional opportunities for collective advocacy across health and development or domestic and international campaigns in the medium and long term, as countries continue to respond to or recover from the pandemic, demonstrating alignment on multiple policy fronts.

Moderator: Amy Boldosser-Boesch, Senior Director, FCI Program & Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement, Management Sciences for Health

Panelists:

- Yolanda Moyo, Senior Director, Advocacy and Policy Research Preparedness, IAVI and representative of the South Africa Health Technologies Advocacy Coalition (SAHTAC)

- Dona Da Costa Martinez, Executive Director, Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago and representative of the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism (CSEM) for UHC2030

- Jeni Miller, Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance

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Dec 10, 2020 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Dec 10, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Civil Society Solidarity: Building Bridges across Global Health Advocacy in Crisis Times Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lS1pK_JWRyOjHywAFX5_AA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Yolanda Moyo (Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy @IAVI) Yolanda Moyo RN, MSc, is the Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy at IAVI where she leads the strategic design and implementation of advocacy activities across IAVI’s overall portfolio, as well as key aspects of policy advocacy, ranging from policy analysis to advocating for evidence-informed policy change. Additionally, she guides the research preparedness activities in Africa to ensure gender balance, recruitment and retention in clinical research; and meaningful engagement with communities most affected by the HIV epidemic. Yolanda has worked in private sector product development clinical trials and in academia managing the regulation compliance of clinical trials, medical devices and non-commercial translational research. She has a master’s degree in Clinical Drug Development from Queen Mary University of London, UK and is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dona Da Costa Martinez (Executive Director @Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago) Dona Da Costa Martinez began her work in sexual and reproductive health 35 years ago, at the Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1999, she was appointed Executive Director. As Executive Director, she has led the expansion of the Association’s work in other areas with a focus on integrating sexual rights in all its projects, including the expansion of its advocacy work in sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is Co-Chair of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) - a regional coalition of community leaders and non-governmental agencies providing services directly to and on behalf of Caribbean populations who are especially vulnerable to HIV infection; she also serves as the chair of the Trinidad and Tobago NCD Alliance and is the Co-Chair of the Caribbean Member Associations of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Dona holds an Executive Master’s in Business Administration from the Institute of Business, UWI St. Augustine. Jeni Miller, PhD (Executive Director @Global Climate and Health Alliance) Jeni Miller, PhD directs the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), the leading global convener of health professional and health civil society organizations to address climate change. GCHA is a consortium of health organizations from around the world united by a shared vision of an equitable, sustainable future, in which the health impacts of climate change are minimized and the health co-benefits of action to address climate change are maximized. Dr. Miller represents the Alliance co-chairing, with WHO, the WHO-Civil Society Working Group on Climate and Health. In addition to her role at the Alliance, Dr. Miller currently serves as Chair of the Environment Section of the APHA. Dr. Miller has over fifteen years’ experience working on place-based, policy- and systems-change strategies to improve community environments for health, on leading initiatives addressing childhood asthma prevention, obesity prevention, climate change, health equity, and healthy community redevelopment.

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