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Politics of Expert Advice: Constraining Debate in India’s Management of COVID-19

By |2021-03-17T15:30:28-04:00March 16th, 2021|

The Indian public health response to COVID-19 has been sidelining expert advice and scientific debate in favor of a political agenda, writes Dr. Rama Baru, professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Nagayo Sensai, Father of Public Health in Japan: Some Lessons for Managing COVID-19

By |2021-03-12T10:54:51-05:00February 25th, 2021|

The historical legacy of Nagayo Sensai and the Japanese hygienic practice and mentality of “eisei” illustrates the importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions and the necessity of establishing a strong local public health infrastructure for managing COVID-19, writes Eimi Watanabe, former Assistant Secretary General and Director of the UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy.

Nothing to Learn from East Asia?

By |2021-02-19T15:33:23-05:00February 2nd, 2021|

An unwillingness to learn from East Asian countries has been a hallmark of the Western response to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Dr. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a senior advisor at the Khazanah Research Institute and the first United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development. 

Futures Present: The Pandemic and the Crisis of Expertise

By |2021-02-19T15:34:47-05:00January 27th, 2021|

The varied response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crisis of expertise and power dynamics within different approaches to public health, writes Gil Eyal, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of The Crisis of Expertise (Polity, 2019). 

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