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SALISES Webinar – Bio-tech for Development? Cuba’s Anti-COVID vaccines and beyond with Professor Bert Hoffmann
13/06/2024

Bert Hoffmann has taught numerous university courses and has worked on major research projects. These include various research projects on Cuba’s political, economic and social transformations since 1989; a five-country comparative study on the regulation and use of new information and communication technologies in Latin America; a 22-country study on emigrant policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. As Principal Investigator in the German-Latin American Centre of Infection & Epidemiology Research & Training (GLACIER) he is currently leading a comparative study of COVID-19 vaccination policies and politics in Central America and the Caribbean.

Click here,  to view the webinar held on Friday, 7 June 2024 by Professor Bert Hoffmann, Lead Researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany, and currently interim co-director of the GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies. He also is Head of the GIGA Berlin Office and since 2014 Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin.