Human Rights and Knowledge During Crises
This event was a culmination of the live experiment during CONTAGION, conducted in our mediator-led sessions. Experimental psychologist Daniel Richardson spoke about how ideas and behaviours spread through groups of people, how crowds make a good or bad decision, and how social psychology helps us better understand group behaviours.
About the Historian
Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Co-Director of the History Department’s Centre for Global Health Histories, Professor in the History of Medicine, a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and the Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories, University of York.
About the Health Systems Researcher
Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher and a global health scholar. He is currently (2020-22) the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, a senior lecturer in global health at the University of Sydney in Australia, and the editor in chief of BMJ Global Health.
About the Global Health Lawyer
Sharifah Sekalala is an Associate Professor of Global Health Law at the University of Warwick. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work is at the intersection of international law, public policy, and global health.
