Professor Julius Mugwagwa's Inaugural Lecture

'Localisation matters: a journey with the life sciences, innovation and public policy'

Julius Mugwagwa, Professor of Health Innovation and Public Policy, UCL STEaPP

In this inaugural lecture, Julius reflects on his eclectic yet unsurprising journey in which he finds himself restlessly concerned about the governance and development implications of technologies and innovations. This lecture departs from reflections on early childhood encounters with agency, proximity and positionality, and a quest to know not only the ‘what’ but also ‘how not so’ and ‘why not so’. The lecture will illuminate how Julius’s career via education in the life sciences, veterinary research, the pharmaceutical industry and the broader science-technology-and-society interface, sets the intellectual constructs for his current and future research, knowledge exchange and teaching interests in innovation and development broadly and specifically health innovation and public policy.   

About Professor Julius Mugwagwa

Born and raised in Zimbabwe and educated in Zimbabwe and the UK, Julius Mugwagwa is currently Professor of Health Innovation and Public Policy at UCL STEaPP. He also currently serves as UCL’s Global Strategic Academic Advisor for Africa, Thematic Director, Global Health at UCL’s Global Governance Institute and is former Head of STEaPP’s Master’s in Public Administration Programme.

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