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In this lecture, Dr. Abimbola will a propose framing the origins and solutions to global health problems in terms of either a failure to or efforts to context a system to more of itself, so that it can learn from itself. The connections may be temporal; they may also be spatial — along vertical and horizontal directions. Unfair knowledge practices in global health are therefore those that constitute barriers to the possibility of connecting a system to more of itself. The lecture's argument will be made using the famous claim that there has never been a famine in a democracy.

Dr. Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria and the 2023-2024 Radulovacki Visiting Scholar in Global Health. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney and his teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and scale up of health system innovations. Dr Abimbola was awarded the 2020-2022 Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for his work on justice in global health research. He was also the editor in chief of BMJ Global Health from 2015-2024.