<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sarojini N B</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sarojini@phmovement.org">sarojini@phmovement.org</a>></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">We have lived with a pandemic and
its trials and tribulations for over a year now. During this time, we have
engaged on issues and concerns that emerged from COVID 19 and responses to it at
various levels, through community action, research and education. Through these
experiences of the past year, we have seen how the pandemic has impacted several
dimensions of our lives, particularly marginalised lives. At the same time, in many ways, the responses
to the pandemic have shaped and reinforced older persisting concerns. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">We believe that a series of conversations to deepen our
understanding of public health from a feminist perspective are necessary. These
will introspect on the present moment while recognising its past linkages, and
attempting to make collective sense of the future. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">The conversations will deliberate on:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Our
learnings from the past pandemics and the recent global outbreaks in terms of
global governance; </span><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt">Were
past experiences similar or different from the current COVID 19 context?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">How have
pandemics shaped the economic, social, environmental, geo political, and technological
aspects of our lives?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Towards this, Sama Resource Group for Women & Health is initiating
a <b>series of conversations</b> and <b>the first </b>is on <b>“Pandemics
& Public health: Learnings from the Past & Present</b>” on 30<sup>th</sup> March
2021. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> <b>IST
| 10:30AM - 12:30PM GMT | 6.30AM - 8.30AM EDT</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">The conversations will be with:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Prashant Kidambi</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is
a historian based at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester. His
book 'The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public
Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920', highlights the impact of the plague pandemic on
colonial Bombay.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Carlo Caduff</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is
the author of ‘The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of
Danger’. He is a Reader in the Department of Global Health & Social
Medicine at King's College, London. His research concerns include questions of
global health & disease, science & technology, ethics & morality.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Facilitators:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Rama Baru</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is
a Professor at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health at the
Jawaharlal Nehru University.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Aditya Bharadwaj</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is
a Professor of Anthropology & Sociology at the Graduate Institute of
International and Development Studies, Geneva.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">This first conversation is
organised </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">by <b>Sama Resource Group for Women & Health </b>(</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.samawomenshealth.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://www.samawomenshealth.in/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">)
with Gender, Justice & Health Thematic Group of <b>People’s Health Movement
(PHM)</b> (</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://phmovement.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://phmovement.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">Please register in advance </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">using
the following link:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5a1Q80t-QFuGP1-Wf4ADcw" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5a1Q80t-QFuGP1-Wf4ADcw</span></b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">We request you to forward this invitation to those who may be
interested.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">Looking forward to your participation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 5.65pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif",serif">
</p><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For details contact</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">: </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Sarojini N: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="mailto:sarojini@phmovement.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">sarojini@phmovement.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Neelanjana Das: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><a href="mailto:sama.publichealth@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">sama.publichealth@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif",serif"><br></p><br>
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