P.K. Anand: The diminishing status of the Chinese worker
ICI visiting scholar, P.K. Anand, published an article in The Hindu on the status of workers and working class in China as the Chinese Communist [...]
Pandemic Treaty Needs to Start with Rethinking the Paradigm of Global Health Security
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
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
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
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.
Mark Frazier & The International Journal of Asian Studies
ICI Co-Director Mark Frazier published an article in the International Journal of Asian Studies that discusses the challenges of comparison in China–India urban studies, and [...]
Conversations on the Frontline: Thinking Long Term and Building Local Capacity
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
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.
Ashok Gurung and CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion
Ashok Gurung, prior Senior Director of ICI, was a guest co-editor for the peer-reviewed journal CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, in a special issue focused [...]