2025 McAuley Oration: Where you live should not determine whether you live
Join the livestream to hear Emeritus Professor Philip Nel discuss how our world remains fundamentally unequal - despite recent progress in reducing extreme poverty, improving the wellbeing of countless people in the world, and reducing between-country income inequality considerably.
These conflicting trends are well captured by variations in the rate at which child mortality is declining globally. Progress in female empowerment, neo-natal care, available public health care, and improvements in sanitation and feeding have led to a significant decline in child mortality across the globe, but at variable national rates. Many more children would survive if it were not for the inordinate role that national borders play in determining who gets what in our world.
Date: Tuesday 25th November 2025.
Time: 4 to 5.15pm.
Location: Online.
Find out more about this online lecture on addressing location-based poverty and inequality in our world, including how to access the livestream.
The McAuley Oration is a public lecture held as part of the annual Otago Global Health Institute (OGHI) conference.