Hello and welcome to a world to win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. I'm Grace Blakely

bringing you your weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action for around the world.

This week, in the wake of the anniversary of the Declaration of a Pandemic by the WHO,

I talk to Dr. Eugene Richardson, a system professor of global health at Harvard and author

of epidemic illusions on the coloniality of global public health. Eugene previously worked

in Sierra Leone and the DRC supporting the response to the Ebola outbreak. We discuss

the ways in which an unequal, unsustainable capitalist world system reproduces massive

economic, political and health inequalities and what we can do about it.

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Champion of the World as our intro and outro music. Now here is Eugene Richardson and why

the world was so unprepared for COVID-19.

Hello Eugene Richardson and thank you so much for joining me on this episode of a world to win.

How are you doing today? I'm doing well. Thanks so much for inviting me.

So we're going to talk a little bit, I mean we're going to talk about a lot today because you know,

you have a kind of fascinating backstory as well as having this new book Epidemic Illusions out

that we're going to talk about as well. But can you tell us a bit about your history and why you

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