Overview

This workshop will be led by Mike Podmore, CEO of STOPAIDS, and Meg Davis, Professor of Digital Health and Rights, at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM). It provides a hands-on introduction to advocacy strategy planning: including mapping the landscape, analysing power, identifying achievable goals, developing a problem-driven research agenda, mobilising diverse allies, lobbying and cultivation, and using research to make a case for change.

The session will draw on real-life case studies and on the speakers’ experience in successful rights-based advocacy with international agencies. Participants will be invited to bring their own experiences and questions to share. The session is open to academic staff and PGR students.

Registration

Date: Tuesday 22 October 2024

Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Location: Oculus, OC0.01

This event is open to academic staff and PGR students. Registration is free and essential to attend to attend. Please register below.

Any Questions?

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Mike Podmore

Mike Podmore is a leading advocate working on global health, international development and sustainable financing. He is CEO of STOPAIDS, the network of over 70 UK-based organisations committed to supporting strong UK leadership on the global AIDS response; and a founding member of the Digital Health and Rights Project, an international consortium hosted by CIM at Warwick. From 2016-18, he was the Board Member leading the Developed Country NGO Delegation to the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the largest international funder for health; and was previously the Alternate Board Member (2016-17). He has served on the Global Fund Strategy Committee (2018-2020) and in Board advisory groups on sustainability, transition and co-financing. In addition, he serves in or leads numerous other high-level global health advocacy mechanisms, including co-chairing the civil society and community platform for the ACT-Accelerator Vaccine Pillar (COVAX); serving on the steering committee of the Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN); and others. Mike is an alumnus of Warwick and a visiting fellow at CIM.

Sara (Meg) Davis

Professor Sara (Meg) Davis is professor of Digital Health and Rights at the University of Warwick’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, and the principal investigator of the Digital Health and Rights Project. She has over twenty years’ experience in global health and human rights as a scholar and practitioner, and is the author of two books, most recently The Uncounted: Politics of data in global health (Cambridge 2020). She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and UCLA. She has worked at Human Rights Watch, as executive director of Asia Catalyst, and as the first senior human rights advisor at the Global Fund. Her consulting clients have included UNDP, UNAIDS, IFRC, ICRC, Global Fund Board delegations, and civil society networks. In 2017, she was one of three winners of the International Geneva Award.