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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:00am
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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 09:30am
5:30 pm to 7:00 pm IST / 8:00 am to 9:30 am ET
Stream the talk on YouTube
The webinar is a joint Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System event with the Centre for Health Equity, Law and Policy on the interlinkages between right to health and universal health coverage. The panel will discuss the right to health as a foundational framework for design and implementation of universal health coverage, with particular emphasis on marginalized contexts, and social determinants of health. As a Citizens’ Commission, we invite the public to participate in the discussion, provide input and engage with the panelists.
Panelists:
Dr. Dainius Puras, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (2014-2020)
Dr. Gita Sen, Director & Distinguished Professor, Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social Determinants of Health (RCESDH), Public Health Foundation of India, Bangalore
Meera Sanghamitra, National Alliance of People’s Movements and Telangana Hijra Intersex Transgender Samiti
Vivek Divan, Coordinator, Centre for Health Equity Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune
Moderator:
Shivangi Rai, Deputy Coordinator, Centre for Health Equity Law and Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune
The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor that aims to lay out a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. Our new webinar series is intended to serve as a platform for public health discourse in India, and a means for academics, practitioners and the public to engage on substantive and timely issues regarding universal health coverage in India.
The Centre for Health Equity Law and Policy, established by the Indian Law Society, uses the law as a tool for health transformation, embedding its work in the right to health as envisaged within India’s constitutional framework and her international commitments. It advocates for equity and justice in health through generation, sharing and use of knowledge that informs related law and policy.
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Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 08:00am
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Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 09:30am
5:30-7:00 pm IST/ 8:00-9:30 am ET
Panelists:
- Mirai Chatterjee, Director, Social Security Team, Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
- Ajay Nair, Chief Executive Officer, Swasth
- Sunita Rani, ASHA Worker and Secretary, ASHA Workers Union Haryana
- Priyadarsh, Yumetta Foundation
Moderator:
Sreenivasan Jain, Journalist and Reality Check Host, NDTV
Description:
The webinar will be a panel discussion about the frontline efforts to manage the devastating COVID-19 pandemic surge in India. The panelists have been directly involved in activities relating to the containment of COVID-19 spread or engaged in COVID-19 related care and will address issues such as COVID preparedness, saving lives, and protecting mental health. As a Citizens’ Commission, we invite the public to participate in the discussion, provide input and engage with the panelists. The Commission would also invite those interested to participate in our initiative and provide inputs to the discussion and work.
The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor that aims to lay out a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. Our new webinar series is intended to serve as a platform for public health discourse in India, and a means for academics, practitioners and the public to engage on substantive and timely issues regarding universal health coverage in India.
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Thu, May 13, 2021 at 08:00am
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Thu, May 13, 2021 at 09:30am
5:30-7:00 pm IST/ 8:00-9:30 am ET
Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System Public Webinar Series, in collaboration with Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force
Panelists:
- Gagandeep Kang, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College
- Peter Piot, Director and Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Gautam Menon, Professor of Physics and Biology, Ashoka University
- K. Sujatha Rao, Former Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
- K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India
Moderator:
Sarah Jacob, Editor/Anchor of ‘We The People’ on NDTV
Description:
The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor that aims to lay out a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. Our new webinar series is intended to serve as a platform for public health discourse in India, and a means for academics, practitioners and the public to engage on substantive and timely issues regarding universal health coverage in India.
The Lancet COVID-19 Commission is an interdisciplinary initiative across the health sciences, business, finance, and public policy that was launched in July 2020. It has four themes: to propose recommendations on how best to suppress the epidemic; to address the humanitarian crises arising from the pandemic; addressing the financial and economic crises resulting from the pandemic; and rebuilding an inclusive, fair, and sustainable world. The work of the Commission is supported by twelve Task Forces, in areas ranging from vaccine development, to humanitarian relief strategies, to safe workplaces, to global economic recovery. The India Task Force of the COVID-19 Commission is the only country-specific Task Force, set up in recognition of the unique challenges that India faces in the context of COVID-19.
The first webinar in the series is a joint event with the Lancet COVID-19 Commission India Task Force and will be a panel discussion about the devastating COVID-19 pandemic surge in India – focusing on the short and long-term actions that are needed to address the impact. Leading experts from the medical, scientific, and public policy community will discuss the lessons that need to be learnt and propose what the next steps should be to respond to, and improve, the situation in India. As a Citizens’ Commission, we invite the public to participate in the discussion, provide input and engage with the panelists.
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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:00am
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Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:15am
7:30–8:45 PM IST // 10:00 AM–11:15 AM EDT
Over the past three years, the Mittal Institute, in partnership with the Tata Trusts, has been conducting research into innovations in healthcare in India. These innovations are focused on expanding access to care, widening the range of services offered, and re-imagining the mode of healthcare delivery. Join us for a discussion on this research. Panelists will speak about innovating in the public health sector, translating health research into practice, and the challenges of creating an enabling environment for these innovations to thrive.
Welcome Remarks by Manoj Kumar, Founder, Social Alpha and Senior Advisor, Tata Trusts
Moderator:
- Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Panelists:
- Satchit Balsari, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Anant Bhan, Bhopal Hub Head, Sangath
- Pawan Sinha, Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rajani Ved, Former Executive Director, National Health Systems Resource Centre
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Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:30pm
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Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:30pm
COVID-19 has claimed many lives in the world. It has also caused catastrophic economic, social, and psychological costs that have far-reaching implications on human welfare. This session examines the effects of COVID-19 on the economy of China, the first country hit by COVID-19 and the first major economy that is gradually re-opening.
Panelists:
Hongqiao Fu, Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Policy in School of Public Health, Peking University
Ajay Nair, Co-founder, MeraDoctor
Atveev Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Harvard School of Public Health; Director, Harvard China Health Partnership; Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
Sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Health Partnership. Co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Harvard University Asia Center. This panel discussion is presented as part of “24 Hours of Harvard,” a special feature of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2020.
This discussion will be streamed online. Check back soon for viewing information.
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Thu, May 14, 2020 at 09:00am
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Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:30am
9:00–10:30 AM EST // 6:00–7:30 PM PKT // 6:30–8:00 PM IST // 7:00–8:30 PM BST
Venue: Virtual via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95936810474
Speakers
- Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Lucicia Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership
- Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India
- Vikram Patel, Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Discussant
- Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Partners In Health
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Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 06:00pm
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Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 08:30pm
“Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World”, an event jointly organized by The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Harvard Global Health Institute and presented in New Delhi, examined the connections between human, animal and environmental health, and the response to disease outbreaks in India.
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Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 06:00pm
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Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 08:00pm
Join us for our ongoing India Seminar Series to discuss the growing challenge of Water Fluorosis, in a discussion titled, ‘Tackling Fluorosis: Innovative technology as a solution to the spreading health crisis’
There are about 66 million people in India suffering from toxic levels of fluoride in their drinking water, these are mostly poor people in rural communities in dry / arid area that must depend of groundwater as their drinking water source. Fluoride is a vicious toxic ion in the sense that it affects and attacks the poor far more aggressively that it affects those nutritionally better off. It also is very effective in ruining the lives of very young people who then suffer from serious bone deformation (skeletal fluorosis) and its harmful economic, social, and psychological effects.
The panelists for this discussion include,
– Dr. Andrew Z. Haddad- ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
– Srikrishna Sridhar Murthy- Founder and CEO, Sattva Consulting
– Dr. Sunderrajan Krishnan- Executive Director, INREM Foundation
To RSVP write to mittalinsitutedelhi@fas.harvard.edu and confirm your presence at the event.
