Meet our SGEP Fellows: Loraine Kennedy
Dr. Loraine Kennedy invited Mr. Ram Mohan Chitta, her collaborator in Hyderabad, India, to the SGEP’s Urban Governance discussion on December 13, 2021. Dr. [...]
SGEP Guest Speakers: Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gil Eyal
The bi-weekly seminars on Shifting Geographies of Expertise and Policymaking (SGEP) recently invited two distinguished guest speakers to have conversations with the cohort of [...]
Meet our SGEP Fellows: Wenjuan Zhang
On Nov. 30, 2021, the SGEP fellows met for a seminar featuring the comparative perspective between India and China. Professor Wenjuan Zhang presented [...]
Conversations on the Frontline: The Future Politics and Geography of Vaccine Supply
Achal Prabhala, coordinator for the AcesssIBSA project which campaigns for access to medicines and vaccines, discusses the politics and shifting geographies of COVID-19 vaccine access.
Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization
The age of hyper-globalization requires global institutions to contain pandemics worldwide in a way that builds on international solidarity and human rights norms, writes Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, co-editor of Pandemic Discourses.
Casualties of Preparedness: Rethinking the Global Health Security Paradigm
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?
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
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
Pandemic Discourses welcomes submissions from authors whose work addresses themes and questions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.