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Podcast: The Prevalence of COVID-19 in India

Mar 4, 2021 | Announcements, COVID-19, Faculty, India

Podcast: The Prevalence of COVID-19 in India

In the third episode of The COVID Chronicles podcast, Dr. Satchit Balsari speaks with Manoj Mohanan, Associate Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Mohanan’s team’s recent paper, published in Lancet Global Health, reports that seroprevalence (the number of individuals in a population who test positive for a specific disease based on serology specimens) in Mumbai varies from 55–61% in the slums, to 12–19% in non-slum settings.

Podcast: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Lives of Children in India?

Feb 25, 2021 | Announcements, COVID-19, Faculty, India, News

Podcast: How Has COVID-19 Affected the Lives of Children in India?

In the second episode of The COVID Chronicles podcast, Dr. Satchit Balsari speaks with Enakshi Ganguly, child rights activist and the co-founder of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights. In July 2020, Ganguly was part of the 11-member expert committee set up by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on human rights, especially those of marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society. Ganguly led the discussion related to the advisory on the rights of children.