Between Profit and Prevention

The speakers will explore how power, capital and corporate practice shape health and planetary outcomes across borders, sectors and generations, including how decisions made in global financial and corporate centres translate into lived health experiences and rooted realities in the majority world.
Drawing on civil society advocacy, responsible investment, moral philosophy and industry experience, the discussion will surface the structural tensions at the heart of transnational health governance; including the tensions between profit and prevention, fiduciary duty and public good, voluntary action and regulation, and short-term returns and long-term population health.
We will discuss concrete examples of actors attempting to shift norms, incentives and accountability within financial and corporate systems that are themselves powerful determinants of health. The discussion will consider what such approaches mean in practice for global contexts where regulatory capacity may be uneven and health and climate risks are intensifying. The discussion will be anchored in questions of ethics and justice, reflecting on what responsibility, legitimacy and obligation mean when health harms are structurally produced and globally distributed, and exploring how ambitious action is negotiated, constrained and sometimes expanded within real-world coalitions.

The event will take place in-person at Wolfson College and will be held in a fireside chat format, followed by moderated discussion with the audience. The format is designed to encourage open, critical and constructive dialogue between speakers and participants.

This event is open to all and free to attend - please book your place.

This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.

If you have any questions, please contact our events team - [email protected]

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