Profiling Health for Equitable Benefit-sharing in the Global Critical Mineral Value-chain in East and Southern Africa
The panel session will:
- Summarise opportunities, challenges for profiling health for equitable benefit-sharing in the global critical mineral value-chain
- Provide a broad overview of health challenges in the critical minerals sector, health impact assessment as a tool for exposing and addressing these challenges and its policy and implementation to date
- Share selected HIA evidence on key issues in and options for the critical minerals sector in Zimbabwe, Zambia and DRC
Speaker Profiles
Panel Moderator and Presenter
Dr. Rene Loewenson, FRSPH, TARSC/EQUINET, Zimbabwe
Rene is a Zimbabwean epidemiologist, public health practitioner and Director of the Training and Research Support Centre. She has since 1980 implemented and led research consortia, including on participatory action research, policy analysis, training and mentoring of work focusing on equity in health, social and commercial determinants of health, health impact assessment and health systems. She is a founder member of EQUINET and has been a technical/strategic advisor to UN.
Panel Presenters
Mr. Lyman Mlambo, Zimbabwe Country Manager, AEGT Zimbabwe
Lyman is an independent mining policy consultant and an adjunct lecturer of mineral economics at the University of Zimbabwe. He was a mineral economics research fellow and chairperson of the Institute of Mining Research (University of Zimbabwe) for several years. He holds a BSc and MSc in economics, and a certificate in mineral resource valuation.
Mr. Philippe Dunia, Researcher, Centre of Expertise and mining governance (CEGEMi-Catholic University of Bukavu); DRCongo; PhD. Student at IOB-Uantwerpen
Phillipe has a masters degree in development studies, with a special focus on development, environment and society from the University of Liege and the Catholic University of Louvain. He is now doing his PhD in Development studies at the University of Antwerp. His doctoral research focuses on social protection in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector in the DR Congo.
Mr. Derrick Bwalya, Research Associate, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) Zambia
Derrick holds a bachelor's degree in Geography and Environmental studies and a Master of Science in the same field from the University of Zambia. He is a Research Associate at Southern African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR) in Lusaka, Zambia. He is also a research assistant on the African Extractivism and Green Transition (AEGT) project. He has over 10 years of experience in coordinating projects including health impact assessments, population, politics and democracy, environmental and climate change projects
Register below and join us on Tuesday, November 24.
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