WEBINAR | How to Reach Those in Need: In Conversation with Joe Wong

Joe Wong, a leading political scientist and scholar of global affairs, shares how to be a global changemaker and reach those most in need.
WEBINAR | How to Reach Those in Need: In Conversation with Joe Wong
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Join us for another episode of the Extraordinary Leaders series on Thursday, September 22nd, at 2pm BST!

How do you deliver vaccines to children living in a slum? We know that vaccines save lives cheaply and have a disproportionately positive impact on children who are the poorest of the poor. But if you are one of these children, you likely don’t have a birth certificate, don’t go to school, and don’t have an address, which means you don’t have access to any system of delivering vaccines. 

In this case, we know what we need, but we don’t know how to get it to the people who need it the most. Joe Wong tackles problems like this in his work to combat poverty with innovation worldwide. Join us on Thursday, September 22nd, at 2pm BST to discover Mr. Wong’s lessons on how a leader can take small steps to make big changes in addressing the world’s most intractable problems.

Register now to discuss:

  • How can we use our individual skills to innovate and enact change globally?
  • How can collaboration help us solve the world’s biggest problems?
  • How can the next generation of leaders prepare to lead in principle and skill?

Register soon because space is limited.

Thursday September 22nd, 2pm BST | 9am EDT | 9pm HKT

💥 We are giving away 5 FREE copies of Joe's new book, From Development to Democracy. Attend to enter the raffle automatically. Winners announced during the webinar.

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Joe Wong, Vice-President, International, University of Toronto

Professor Joseph Wong is Vice-President, International, University of Toronto, where he is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He held the Canada Research Chair in Health, Democracy, and Development for two terms from 2006 to 2016. He is the author of many academic articles and several books, including Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea and Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State, both published by Cornell University Press. Inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals, in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Professor Wong founded the Reach Alliance, a model for student-led, faculty-mentored, multi-disciplinary research dedicated to investigating the pathways to success for innovative programs that are reaching the world’s most marginalized populations: http://reachalliance.org/what-is-reach. He is a graduate of McGill University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

  


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