Articles (related to covid19 pandemic)
COVID19-19: Inter-disciplinary Public Health Perspectives from Center of Social Medicine and Community Health
The SARS-CoV-2, a novel virus for the human species that has challenged the world in the year 2020, has created the biggest public health event in the past hundred years. The faculty, students and almuni at CSMCH, JNU are tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, with special focus on India. The first case was detected in the country on the 29th of January 2020. Once the epidemic escalated in March 2020, the government of India announced a lockdown of economic and social activities to contain the spread of the virus and to buy time to undertake the public health and medical preparations necessary to meet the challenge and minimise the health impact of the new infection.
As the epidemic unfolds we track: its epidemiology, the various components of response to it including epidemic control strategies, health systems issues, its political economy, politics of knowledge, as well as people’s voices and differential experiences. Employing an inter-disciplinary public health and health systems perspective, we sift through the debates that are bound to emerge around such an uncertain and evolving phenomenon.
Some preliminary writings put out in the public domain are listed below along with the links from where they can be accessed. They raise emergent issues as well as argue for what we consider the optimal ways of handling the epidemic, with consideration of the epidemiological, clinical, epidemic control and governance, public communication, economic and humanitarian dimensions.
List of Publications
2022
Sathyamala, C. (2022). The Political Economy of a Global Pandemic, Development and Change, International Journal of Social Studies, The Hague
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-7660.political-economy-of-a-global-pandemic
2021
Sathyamala, C. (2021). Suspend in time we wait, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue 35
https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/35/postscript/suspended-time-we-wait.html
2020
March 6, 2020
Rama Baru
To contain coronavirus, monitor and communicate Science, a functioning public health system, and government support are critical in managing epidemics
https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/to-contain-coronavirus-monitor-and-communicate/story-7WKWLWqBDTcLlawcOFPtcI.html
March 23, 2020
Rajib Dasgupta
क्यों खास है हमारे लिए यह जंग
https://www.livehindustan.com/blog/story-hindustan-opinion-column-14th-march-2020-3083639.html
March 26, 2020
Sanghmitra S Acharya
https://epaper.livehindustan.com/imageview_8952_117012174_4_1_26-03-2020_8_i_1_sf.html
March 26, 2020
Ritu Priya, Rajib Dasgupta
The covid-19 crisis: Physical distancing, Social bonding
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/coronavirus-covid-19-physical-distancing-social-bonding-6333401/
Sathyamala, C. (2020). COVID-19: A biopolitical odyssey. International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). ISS working papers. General series No. 667
https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/covid-19-a-biopolitical-odyssey
April 1st, 2020
Ritu Priya and V. Sujatha
Will Traditional Indian Medicine Be Allowed to Contribute to the Fight Against COVID-19?
https://thewire.in/health/traditional-indian-medicine-ayurveda-siddha-unani-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-immunity
April 3, 2020
Rama V. Baru
India needs a national policy providing for free testing and treatment of COVID-19 patients in private hospital
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/making-the-private-sector-care-for-public-health/article31241291.ece
April 4, 2020
Chris Mary Kurian
How Kerala’s People-Centric Health System Built Over 24 Years Is Paying off now
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/kerala-people-centric-health-system-coronavirus_in_5e875d55c5b6a9491835cb9e
April 9, 2020
Ragib Dasgupta
बचाव के उपायों से तय होगा भविष्य
https://www.livehindustan.com/blog/story-hiindustsn-opinion-column-10-april-2020-3139115.html
April 12, 2020
SreeKumar NC
COVID19 Lockdown: An indefinite Season of No Work
http://bodhicommons.org/covid19-lockdown-migrant-labourers-kerala
April 14, 2020
Pratyush Singh
Can Bihar Government Handle the Annual AES Outbreak as the COVID 19 Crisis
https://thewire.in/government/bihar-covid-aes-public-health
April 15, 2020
Dr Vikas Bajpai
COVID-19 is showing us the mirror
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/author/1273997/dr-vikas-bajpai
April 16, 2020
Sanghmitra S Acharya
https://www.livehindustan.com/blog/nazariya/story-hindustan-nazariya-column-16-april-2020-3152757.html
Sanghmitra S Acharya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TTkUx2uTWQ&authuser=0
April 16, 2020
Mathew George
Coronavirus outbreak presents chance for India to strengthen public healthcare system, train grassroots health workers to detect epidemics
https://www.firstpost.com/health/coronavirus-outbreak-presents-chance-for-india-to-strengthen-public-healthcare-system-train-grassroots-health-workers-to-detect-epidemics-8265301.html
April 24, 2020
Sreekumar NC
My Quarantine Life
https://m.facebook.com/notes/centre-for-socio-economic-environmental-studies-kochi/my-quarantine-life/2539050553021491/?comment_id=2539072849685928¬if_t=comment_mention¬if_id=1587731820380389&ref=m_notif
April 29, 2020
Rama Baru and Ramila Bisht
Private hospitals must do more to shoulder the burden of COVID-19 in India
https://unsettlinghealthcare.org/2020/04/29/private-hospitals-covid/
April 29, 2020
Rajib Dasgupta
How COVID-19 is affecting other essential health services | The Hindu In Focus Podcast
The Hindu in Focus Podcast
https://www.thehindu.com/podcast/how-covid-19-is-affecting-other-essential-health-services-the-hindu-in-focus-podcast/article31516861.ece
May 01 2020
Ramila Bisht and Sweta Menon
ASHA Workers Are Indispensable. So Why Are They the Least of Our Concerns?
https://thewire.in/rights/asha-workers-coronavirus
Rajib Dasgupta
May 4, 2020
A public health expert on the path ahead for India after 40 days of lockdown
https://indianexpress.com/audio/3-things/a-public-health-expert-on-the-path-ahead-for-india-after-a-40-day-lockdown/6392097/
May 05, 2020
SAYAN DAS, RAMILA BISHT AND YASIR HAMID
https://science.thewire.in/health/covid-19-tuberculosis-cases/
May 7, 2020
Rajshree Chanchal and Ajit K Lenka
https://telanganatoday.com/online-learning-and-the-marginalised
May 08, 2020
Ramila Bisht, Jyotishmita Sarma and Rajashree Saharia
COVID-19 Lockdown: Guidelines Are Not Enough to Ensure Pregnant Women Receive Care
https://thewire.in/women/
May 16, 2020
Sanghmitra S Acharya, Mala Mukherjee, Chandrani Dutta
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/growing-health-crisis-and-missing-women-in-covid-19-endangering-gender
May 19, 2020
Sanghmitra S Acharya, Sunita Reddy , Nemthianggai Guite
https://countercurrents.org/2020/05/covid-19-induced-lockdown-and-migrant-workers-the-communication-gap
May 21, 2020
SAYAN DAS, RAMILA BISHT AND YASIR HAMID
https://science.thewire.in/health/covid-19-tuberculosis-cases/
May 22 2020
Manisha S. Meshram and Ramila Bisht
https://thewire.in/rights/the-coronapocalypse-and-sanitation-workers-in-india
May 25, 2020
Pratyush Singh
Nothing Really New: Stimulus Package for Health Sector So Far Has Been Unimpressive
https://thewire.in/economy/nirmala-sitharaman-health-sector-stimulus
May26, 2020
Sanghmitra S Acharya
Whither safety gear for frontline cleaners? 'Caste-based' discrimination amidst Covid-19
https://www.counterview.net/2020/05/whither-safety-gear-for-frontline.html
May 26, 2020
Pratyush Singh
Analysis of stimulus package
scholarsvoice@googlegroups.com
May 2020
Sarita Sreekumar NC
Lives of the Disabled in an Era of Cyber Education
https://studentstruggle.in/lives-of-the-disabled-in-an-era-of-cyber-education
May 26, 2020
Sunita Reddy
Discounted Deaths’ and COVID 19: Anthropology of Death and Emotions
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/other/1065724-discounted-deaths-and-covid-19-anthropology-of-death-and-emotions
May 31, 2020
Ramila Bisht and Sumegha Asthana
Is Maharashtra showing the way for the state to Reclaim it's role in Health care
https://thewire.in/government/maharashtra-public-health-systems-covid-19
Vikas Bajpai
Surge in covid cases proves centre-wrong pandemic response marked by-theatrics not science
https://caravanmagazine.in/health/surge-in-covid-cases-proves-centre-wrong-pandemic-response-marked-by-theatrics-not-science
Webinar: The Pandemic and Public Health Equity
https://youtu.be/EaRbVaNRenA
The Uneasy 'Disconsonance': the Medical Profession and Social Reality
https://livewire.thewire.in/health/an-uneasy-dis-consonance-the-medical-profession-and-social-reality/
Covid Showing us the Mirror
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/opinion/covid-19-is-showing-us-the-mirror
https://youtu.be/JfY2gJi8Mu0
Rajniti: Public Health and WHO
https://youtu.be/vZ8If-X04dg
Hysteria over Tablighi Jamaat turns out to be Counterproductive
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/hysteria-over-tablighi-jamaat-turns-out-to-be-counter-productive
Anand Krishnan, Rajib Dasgupta
Guest Editors
COVID--19 Special Issue of the Indian Journal of Public Health
Journal link: http://www.ijph.in/ [open access]
Faculty members
Rajib Dasgupta, Anand Krishnan
Science, policy, people, and public health: What Is COVID-19 teaching us?
http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2020;volume=64;issue=6;spage=87;epage=89;aulast=Krishnan
Rama V Baru
Health systems preparedness during COVID-19 pandemic: China and Indiap.
http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2020;volume=64;issue=6;spage=96;epage=98;aulast=Baru
Ritu Priya, V Sujatha
AYUSH for COVID-19: Science or Superstition?
http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2020;volume=64;issue=6;spage=105;epage=107;aulast=Priya
Alumni
Rajeev Sadanandan
Kerala's response to COVID-19
http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2020;volume=64;issue=6;spage=99;epage=101;aulast=Sadanandan
Visiting Professor (former)
T Sundararaman
Health systems preparedness for COVID-19 pandemicp.
http://www.ijph.in/article.asp?issn=0019-557X;year=2020;volume=64;issue=6;spage=91;epage=93;aulast=Sundararaman
June 7, 2020
Rajib Dasgupta
In Step with Corona! [Hindi] Dainik Bhaskar
https://epaper.bhaskar.com/magazine/rasrang/211/07062020/mpcg/1/
June 26, 2020
Rajib Dasgupta
Some Efforts Remained in Coordination [Hindi]. Hindustan
https://www.livehindustan.com/blog/story-hindustan-opinion-column-26-june-2020-3305875.html
27 June 2020
Sonu Pandey
Title-Social Security for Migrant Workers during COVID-19
https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/26-27/commentary/social-security-migrant-workers-during-covid-19.html
29 June 2020
Sumanta Roy
Marxists vs Paternalists vs Liberals: Where healthcare stands in India
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/health/marxists-vs-paternalists-vs-liberals-where-healthcare-stands-in-india-72022
July, 2020.
Ritu Priya
COVID-19: The Politics of Knowledge, Public Health and the World Order, Geography and You, 20(146), 18-25.
July 7, 2020
Priya Tiwari, Sayan Das, Ujjayinee Aich
How To Tap Community Participation To Defeat COVID-19
https://www.indiaspend.com/how-to-tap-community-participation-to-defeat-covid-19/
10 July 2020
Rajib Dasgupta
A Cognitive Lockdown. Indian Express
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/delhi-coronavirus-covid-cases-lockdown-6498371/
July 15, 2020
Sumanta Roy, Debottam Saha
Sex workers are never got their dues from the society.
https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/sex-workers-are-never-got-their-dues-from-the-society-1.1175930?fbclid=IwAR2qzAVDo7_Xk-w3m%20tpTjwNpKH1H4M5lttaVCBkHrWp3gJi0mM35lgBSKM
September 14, 2020
Sumanta Roy, Debottam Saha
COVID-19, Cyclone Amphan show how sex workers remain at receiving end.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/health/covid-19-cyclone-amphan-show-how-sex-workers-remain-at-receiving-end-73354
Public health preparedness and responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in South Asia: a situation and policy analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7657871/ (it's a full-length research paper).
My struggle with COVID-19 (https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/my-struggle-with-covid-19-6520333/)