White Health and International Law
Carey School of Law
500 W. Baltimore Street Krongard Room, 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
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This is a hybrid event. The webinar information will be sent to all registered attendees shortly before the event.
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Carey School of Law
500 W. Baltimore Street Krongard Room, 1st Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States
Speakers
Matiangai Sirleaf, JD
Carey School of Law and UM School of Medicine
Professor Matiangai Sirleaf is an interdisciplinary international scholar, justice seeker, and human rights advocate who has worked over the last 16 years to unearth unjust hierarchies embedded in international law and to remedy the inequities that emerge and persist.
She is the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She holds a secondary appointment as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Professor Sirleaf has published widely and extensively. Her areas of expertise include public international law, international human rights law, global public health law, international criminal law, post-conflict and transitional justice, and criminal law. Her current research projects are focused on race and the histories of international human rights and health inequality and the law.
Dr. Seye Abimbola
Associate Professor
University of Sydney's School of Public Health
Seye Abimbola is a health systems researcher from Nigeria. He is currently a senior lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney in Australia, where he teaches global health and uses realist methods and theories from institutional economics to study health system governance. Dr Abimbola served as the editor in chief of BMJ Global Health, and the Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University, where he is working on justice in global health research.