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Private insurers as purchasing intermediaries in publicly financed health insurance: Lessons from India’s Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana

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Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET

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CGIS South S250, 1730 Cambridge ST

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India launched the Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) in 2018 to provide cashless healthcare coverage for hospitalization to the poorest 40 percent of the population. The scheme forms an important component of the country’s journey towards universal health coverage. In this presentation, the institutional structures associated with the organization of purchasing arrangements in the PMJAY will be examined, with a focus on comparing the performance of government trusts versus private insurance companies[…]

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AI in South Asia – Social Impact

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Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 10:00am, ET

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Register here for the event The rise of artificial intelligence technology and the modernization of the South Asia region have occurred in parallel over the past few decades – now, they are growing increasingly interconnected, with wide-ranging impacts and consequences. Join us for this miniseries as we explore how AI technology becomes an integral part […]

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Decarbonizing India’s Energy Economy

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Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 03:00pm, ET

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Register for the Decarbonizing India’s Energy Economy talk Speaker: Professor Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University and Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of […]

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“Practically No Habitation”: The Yanadi Community and the Colonial Violence of Spaceflight

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Tue, Mar 30, 2021 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET

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Register here to join the webinar. SPEAKER: Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History, Fordham University The Indian state’s broken pacts with Indigenous communities, the so-called ‘scheduled tribes’ or Adivasi, resulted in massive displacements in the name of environmental, territorial, and infrastructural sovereignty, yet none have given rise to such troubling paradoxes as those implemented to build […]

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Can Science Make Sense of Life? The Politics of CRISPR Regulation

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Fri, Jan 17, 2020 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET

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C-Camp, LH-1, Bengaluru

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Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to […]

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Between the Yogi and the Commissar

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Mon, Nov 4, 2019 from 04:15pm — 05:45pm, ET

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Between the Yogi and the Commissar: Imagining De-Colonial Science in Postcolonial India, c. 1952–1977 Projit Bihari Mukharji, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Moderated by Victor Seow, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Science, Harvard University For the generation of political leaders who took charge of the newly independent Indian state in 1947, the world seemed […]

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Data Privacy 3.0: Are We Ready for AI in South Asia?

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Tue, Oct 8, 2019 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET

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How can India take advantage of data to achieve its developmental objectives while balancing the need for personal privacy? The recently implemented Account Aggregator framework tries to establish a digital consent architecture to allow post-collection transfers of data. This will unlock a number of financial models to serve those who are not currently part of the formal banking systems. But at the same time, this can have a serious impact on personal privacy. A similar model is being attempted in the health system, and that too has similar repercussions. The speakers on this panel will delve into the interplay between data transfer and personal privacy in both the financial and healthcare systems.

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Rahul Matthan, Partner, Trilegal, India
I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Moderator: Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, the Mittal Institute

This event is co-sponsored by The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

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Harnessing Science to Serve Humanity: Vision of Tata Institute for Genetics and Society

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Mon, Mar 4, 2019 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

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This seminar will focus on scientific advancements in research on human health and agriculture in India and the vision of the Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS) in this field. TIGS is a collaborative research institution that aims to improve health security and food security for India. Dr. Suresh Subramani, Global Director at TIGS […]

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Energizing India: Scenarios for India’s Energy Future

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Mon, Apr 17, 2017 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

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Speaker: Suman Bery, former chief economist, Shell Corporation Moderator: Rohit Chandra, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Kennedy School Suman Bery will present some of the results and larger ideas of a joint study conducted by Shell and various Indian think tanks about potential scenarios for India’s energy future. He will discuss India’s energy mix, constraints and possibilities on its […]

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Assessing Impact of Feed-in-Tariff on Electric Grids in the Developing World: A Socio-economic Perspective

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Tue, Dec 13, 2016 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET

 

Science and Technology Seminar Fahad Javed, Aman Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute Discussant: Afreen Siddiqi, Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Feed-in-tariffs to support solar photovoltaic (PV) cells deployment for home consumers has been one of the most actively supported policy measure across the globe for a […]

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Energy Access in Remote Communities – A Practitioner’s Experience

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Wed, Oct 19, 2016 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

 

Science and Technology Seminar Anshuman Lath, Co-Founder, Gram Oorja  Chair: Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting professor, MIT; Professor and Director of the BP Chair on Sustainable Development, Comillas University Gram Oorja Solutions Private Limited (www.gramoorja.in), founded in 2007, has worked in over 120 remote villages of India, providing electricity, drinking water and cooking fuel to tribal communities. A key feature […]

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