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Pandemic Discourses

A Global Contagion Demands Global Perspectives

This blog aims to foster an interdisciplinary and global dialogue on the historical, social, and political dimensions of the pandemic. It will provide diverse perspectives from different corners of the world, and especially the Global South, bringing to the forefront variable and contested understandings of disease, science, and society.

The blog is a collaboration between the India China Institute and the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. It is co-edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Manjari Mahajan, and Mark W. Frazier.

Pandemic Discourses welcomes contributions from authors whose work addresses themes and questions related to COVID-19 responses, practices, and policies at various scales, from community to global. Details on submission can be found here.

Casualties of Preparedness: Rethinking the Global Health Security Paradigm

Manjari Mahajan

|2021-12-10T13:39:47-05:00December 10th, 2021

The governance of global health security must systematically integrate different kinds of expertise and meaningfully represent states around the world, writes Manjari Mahajan, co-director of ICI and co-editor of Pandemic Discourses.

Can a Pandemic Lawmaking Exercise Promote Global Health Justice?

Alicia Ely Yamin

|2021-12-01T17:05:22-05:00November 30th, 2021

This article discusses global health inequalities and justice through addressing the critical contestations that underlie any future pandemic treaty or revisions of International Health Regulations. Written by Alicia Ely Yamin, Senior Fellow in the Global Health and Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center.

Can Digital Technology Support Mental Health with Equity? A New Approach to Task-Sharing in NYC in the Pandemic Era

|2021-11-12T17:38:32-05:00November 12th, 2021

COVID-19 provides an opportunity to design community based mental health care on digital platforms to deliver support to systematically marginalized communities, writes Adam Brown, Vice Provost for Research and Associate Professor of Psychology at The New School in co-authorship with Sudeshna Mahata, Manaswi Sangraula, and Kendall Pfeffer.

Pandemic Discourses Open Submissions

|2021-11-12T15:53:42-05:00November 9th, 2021

Pandemic Discourses welcomes submissions from authors whose work addresses themes and questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pandemic Treaty Needs to Start with Rethinking the Paradigm of Global Health Security

|2021-08-04T00:54:50-04:00August 4th, 2021

Discussions about a new Pandemic Treaty underscore the imperative of rethinking the paradigm of global health security, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Paulo Buss, and Alicia Ely Yamin.

Part Two of Interview with Dr. K. Srinath Reddy: Beyond Microbes and Medicine: Pandemics as Reconfiguring Societies

|2021-06-10T13:29:03-04:00June 10th, 2021

Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, discusses social media, data, migrant workers, and ecological concerns in the COVID-19 pandemic in the second part of his interview with Manjari Mahajan.

Part One of Interview with K. Srinath Reddy: COVID-19’s Lesson for India: Rebuild Primary Healthcare

|2021-06-10T13:30:30-04:00June 6th, 2021

Dr. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, discusses how the big takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic should be the critical importance of building broad based and accessible primary health care across geographic and urban-rural divides.

A Design Perspective on COVID-19: Interview with Co-editors of Special Issue of Design and Culture

|2021-06-01T20:30:17-04:00May 30th, 2021

Betti Marenko and Jilly Traganou, co-editors of “Design in the Pandemic: Dispatches from the Early Months,” use a design perspective to discuss how inventive and localized strategies around the world emerged to handle the challenges posed by COVID-19.

Conversations on the Frontline: Thinking Long Term and Building Local Capacity

|2021-05-17T20:04:19-04:00May 14th, 2021

Burcu Kilic, research director for Public Citizen's Access to Medicines Program, discusses the complex web of COVID-19 intellectual property protection, and the new possibilities of emerging manufacturing capacity in the Global South.

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