TED Fellow and global health researcher Francisca Mutapi discusses how COVID-19 responses borrowed from the West created significant obstacles for other public health programs in Africa -- and makes the case for the continent to chart out its own health care policies. "The solutions to Africa's health problems must be home-grown and must be led ...

COVID19 has reiterated the fact that there is no such thing as a representative human. Yet modern medicine insists on treating us as if we are all identical. In this talk Francisca discussed why this is dangerous for public health interventions and she proposed steps that are required to address this failing.