Most people believe that the only way to get into global health is through NGOs and charitable organisations. McKinsey Partner Tania Zulu Holt discusses how you can work for the private sector while making an impact in solving the pressing issues in global health.

2:30-4:00pm, Alison Richards Building, Room S1

This paper looks ethnographically at the cocaine trade in and through Bissau, the small capital of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. It clarifies the way that Guinea-Bissau came to gain the unflattering title of being ‘Africa’s first narco state’, and looks at the political developments that made the country a central node in the global trade in cocaine. In doing so, it highlights some of the less obvious aspects of illegal cross-border trade and ties the minor flow of drugs, often trafficked by the desperate and disenfranchised, to larger global dynamics.

CGC Round Tables give Cambridge researchers the opportunity to talk about research relating to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Round Tables, which prioritise participation by Early Career Researchers, are informal and discursive. Speakers are encouraged to present on the progress of their research, and any difficulties they are facing working in developing countries. CGC will help with the latter where possible.

Please apply here to present your work and/or participate in the discussions of the Easter 2019 CGC Round Table before 29th April and do note hesitate to get in touch (sbas2@cam.ac.uk) if you have any questions. Details about previous Round Tables can be found here.

Confirmed talk:
Advancing the impact of University-generated knowledge in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) through academia-industry partnerships
The programme addresses the advancement of academia-industry ecosystems that benefit local communities in the SADC region and the knowledge-transfer systems and practices that underlie them –with the focus of specific cases of research in Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia that, through collaboration with industry, have had or have the potential to be locally applied. The talk invites the participation of members of the Cambridge global challenges community in the programme.

This conference will investigate the role of play-based learning in low income countries, as well as in low resource settings within middle and higher income countries.

It will bring together researchers, policy actors and non-governmental organisations with the aim of drawing lessons on play-based learning across settings, as well as identifying variations between contexts.