A different pandemic strategy: Nicaragua example
This conference is the first anywhere in the world to consider collectively the impacts of Covid suppression measures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The conference brings together scholars from the health and social sciences who have been working on questions regarding education, gender, socioeconomic impacts and political economies related to the Covid response. While there has been much focus on these questions in High Income Countries, there has yet to be a sustained and inter-regional discussion from Low- and Middle-Income Countries. This conference addresses this disparity.
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About the Speaker
Coleen Littlejohn, born in northern New York, is a retired development worker with a BA in History from Lemoyne College, Syracuse, New York. She then did a master’s in international studies from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. She first worked for Catholic Relief Services in Colombia and Chile and then Nicaragua at the beginning of 1980. Nicaragua has been her home since then, working for the FSLN government, founding a developing NGO, CAPRI, representing Save the Children Canada and then as Senior Operations Officer of the World Bank in Nicaragua for 5 years and then four years in Liberia, West Africa during which she helped coordinate the World Bank’s response during the outbreak of Ebola. She has been a witness to the development of a community based public health system over the years in Nicaragua, a development which was crucial in preparing the country to deal with the Covid pandemic.
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