Power, People and Planet Dr Tolullah Oni | Urban epidemiologist and founder of UrbanBetter
"Health is a public good. So if we have a market system that's not working for the public good, then that needs to change."
Dr Tolullah Oni is a public health physician and urban epidemiologist. She grew up in Lagos and today is a Clinical Senior Research associate with the University of Cambridge as well as an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. She is also Founder of UrbanBetter, an Africa-led, youth-privileged, science-based and equity-centred learning collaborative designing health and sustainability in cities.
In this episode, Tolullah explains the deeper structural issues that surround public health, how cities can play an important role in health, and the failures the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed in our systems.
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Produced by the Green Economy Coalition, the world’s largest movement for a green and fair economy: https://greeneconomycoalition.org
Tolullah on Twitter: @DrTolullah
UrbanBetter website: https://urbanbetter.science/
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