Abstract

Increasing pandemic frequency and increasing economic inequality are creating a self-reinforcing cycle. What’s needed is therefore a new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness. In addition to the authors, the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS, and Pandemics (http://www.inequalitycouncil.org) includes John E. Ataguba, Helen Clark, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Ingrid T. Katz, Ruth Laibon Masha, Richard Lusimbo, Rovshan Muradov, Javier Padilla Bernáldez, Mathume Joseph Phaahla, Erika Placella, Achal Prabhala, Peter Sands, Chadchart Sittipunt, Nísia Trindade, and Imraan Valodia. The Council is housed at the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS and the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Policy and Politics. Additional information about the Council members is provided in the Supplementary Appendix, available at NEJM.org.

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2026 SCIS Annual Inequality Lecture

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) warmly invites you to its Annual Inequality Lecture. Professor Jayati Ghosh will deliver the keynote address titled Can developing countries reduce inequality in today’s world economy?

The global economic architecture is associated with many inequalities. These exist between countries, because of currency hierarchies and integration into international financial markets on unequal terms; unequal power in the international financial institutions controlled by a few advanced economies that display double standards for richer and poorer countries; restrictive “trade” rules that reduce policy space in lower income countries and do not allow them to use the same economic strategies that richer countries used in the course of their development.

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