On 21 August 2019 the Critical Edge Alliance and Roskilde University held a public Panel Debate in Copenhagen on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

The group had invited Mogens Lykketoft, former President of the UN General Assembly and former Minister, and experts from academia, business, civil society, and the UNDP to discuss implementation of the SDGs and the critical role that different stakeholders play.

This podcast with highlights from the two-hour long discussion is produced by Rikke Nöhrlind (from the Critical Edge Alliance) and edited by Mads Folmer Jensen.

Panel Debate on the UN SDGs Part 2

Panel Debate on the UN SDGs Part 1

Find more on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0rs8MU7r9yxQwr7YB8lQaP

For the first episode of CEA Global Voices, we were joined by two experts on epidemiology: Catalina Gonzalez Uribe, Master in Anthropology as well as MSc in Social Epidemiology, as well as Doctorate in Epidemiology and Public Health from University of Los Andes, Colombia; and Maarten van Wijhe from Roskilde University, Denmark, postdoctoral researcher on epidemiology, who works with the historical and statistical aspects of infectious diseases. Both universities are part of Critical Edge Alliance (CEA), a global collaborative framework for innovative, student-centered, and critical universities around the world which has brought us together to create this podcast.

With the aim to understand the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of its historical context, we explored past, present, and future together: what makes this pandemic different from those in the past? Why and how did this pandemic catch so many completely off guard? What are the present challenges and future implications of COVID-19? Joined by Catalina, an epidemiologist with an interdisciplinary orientation having also studied psychology and anthropology, and Maarten, who contributed historical insights, we crossed boundaries and found a means to connect using our computers and critical minds. Together, we created something larger than the sum of its parts: a shared understanding of what makes our present meaningful and historical.

Global Voices Ep. 1: Epidemiologists Maarten van Wijhe and Catalina Gonzalez on COVID-19

Joined by two experts on economics, R. Ramakumar, Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and J. Mohan Rao, Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, we discussed the socioeconomic implications of the lockdown on the regional and global level. COVID-19 is causing severe economic problems around the world. Global food supply chains are affected by lockdown measures and other problems caused by the outbreak. It becomes clear that many of the goods that we take for granted are in fact dependent on many factors that are vulnerable to the impacts of a state of unexpected crisis. Departing from the issue of food security, and with a special focus on India and the US, we talked about the economic-epidemiological dilemmas for policymakers and their disproportionate global impacts.

If you want to read more, here is an article by R. Ramakumar: http://fas.org.in/blog/when-the-invisible-disappeared-migrant-labour-in-agriculture-in-the-pandemic/

CEA Global Voices Ep. 3: Socioeconomic Implications of COVID-19, with R. Ramakumar and J. Mohan Rao

Critical Edge Alliance (CEA) is a global collaborative framework for universities that focus upon student-centered learning, critical thinking, interdisciplinary teaching and research, and social engagement. Learn more about us on our website: https://www.criticaledgealliance.com/

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