covid-19

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

By |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.

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

By |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

By |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.

Conversations on the Frontline: Uphill Battle for Developing Countries

By |2021-05-17T20:08:56-04:00May 11th, 2021|

K.M. Gopakumar, Senior Research and Legal Advisor at Third World Network, discusses the implications of the new patent vaccine waiver introduced in the WTO and how countries like India face political, technical, and policy constraints in accessing medicine.

Reimagining the ‘Public’ in Public Health: The New Orleans Streetcar as a Global Public Health Metaphor

By |2021-05-07T18:26:08-04:00May 7th, 2021|

COVID-19 provides an opportunity to reimagine public health systems to focus on access, writes Andrew McDowell, cultural and medical anthropologist at Tulane University.

Conversations on the Frontline: From the Politics of Solidarity to the Politics of Fear

By |2021-04-30T13:46:47-04:00April 27th, 2021|

In the second interview as part of our new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," public health consultant and lawyer, Rohit Malpani, discusses how since the HIV/AIDS pandemic there has been from a shift from politics to geopolitics, the new role that emerging economies play in the global landscape of COVID-19 vaccine access, and the importance of technology platforms.

Conversations on the Frontline: Pharmaceutical Companies – What is the Way Forward?

By |2021-06-02T21:36:18-04:00April 23rd, 2021|

In the first interview as part of our new series, "Politics of Vaccine Equity: Conversations on the Frontline," public health expert and senior policy advisor to the People's Vaccine Alliance, Mohga Kamal-Yanni, discusses how countries are at the whim of Big Pharma for supplying COVID-19 vaccines.

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