TRT Digital Debates to host talk on vaccine diplomacy

ANKARA TRT World Forum’s Digital Debates series will continue on Wednesday with a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine diplomacy. The session features Irshad Ali Shaikh, WHO Turkey health security team head; Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer at University of Exeter Medical School; and Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, deputy director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. It will be hosted by Talip Kucukcan, a former member of Turkey’s parliament and currently professor of sociology at Marmara University and a senior fellow at the TRT World Research Center. The discussion – titled Who Calls the ‘Shots’?: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Global Pandemic – will air at 8 p.m. local time (1700GMT) and will be broadcast live on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Information and updates on the series are available on the following social media accounts – Facebook: @trtworldforum, Twitter: @trtworldforum, YouTube: TRT World Forum.