 Health is about human beings. Health is not just about combating pathogens. I'm Cesar Atuiere. I'm an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghana and also Ethics Lead at the Masters in International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford. The title of our project is Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health Blue reversality and actionable tools. In many situations of health emergencies there are appeals to international solidarity. However what we find is that on the local levels people do exhibit solidarity whereas at the international level appeals to solidarity have been generally ineffective. We saw that with the vaccines for COVID-19. So what we're trying to do is first of all understand what solidarity means to different people and we do this by interrogating the people and the voices across different areas of the global south Asia, Latin America, Africa to find out how they conceptualize and live solidarity and then out of these we're hoping to tease out an understanding of solidarity that is inclusive and at the second point we will then work out how we can make actionable tools out of this in such a way that when there are appeals to solidarity one we know exactly what we are appealing to be done and secondly we can actually measure whether solidarity is being practiced and by whom. During the pandemic science and medical sciences made great advances in producing a vaccine in record times. What was lacking was where elements of governance, trust, distribution and allocation of resources and these are issues that have to be tackled from the social sciences, the arts and the humanities because what can happen is that we may even have the best and most scientifically advanced tools but if people do not want them or they are not attuned to people's needs and priorities and there is no trust these tools will be ineffective in combating disease. Unlike many other research projects that sometimes require a lead to be from the global north in our project Wellcome had no issues at all with the lead of the project being based at the University of Ghana which is in the global south and having collaborators from other parts of the world including the global north so flexibility, the capacity to listen and dialogue and the broad conceptualization of health and the things that attracted me to the discovery awards as a way of shifting understandings.