<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;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><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;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><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">The conversations will deliberate
on:</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Our
learnings from the past pandemics and the recent global outbreaks in terms of
global governance; </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Were past experiences similar or different from the current COVID
19 context?</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">How
have pandemics shaped the economic, social, environmental, geo political,
and technological aspects of our lives?</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Towards
this, Sama Resource Group for Women & Health is initiating a <b>series
of conversations</b> on </span><font size="4"><b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)" lang="EN-US">“Pandemics
& Public health: Learnings from the Past & Present</span></b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)" lang="EN-US">” on <b>30<sup>th</sup> March 2021</b></span></font><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">. </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">This first
conversation is organised<b> </b>by <b>Sama Resource Group for Women
& Health </b>(<a href="http://www.samawomenshealth.in/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.samawomenshealth.in/</span></a>) with <b>Gender,
Justice & Health Thematic Group</b> of <b>People’s Health Movement
(PHM)</b> (<a href="https://phmovement.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://phmovement.org/</span></a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"><font size="4">Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM BST | 6.30 AM –
8.30 AM EDT</font></span></b><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">The conversations will be with:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Prashant Kidambi</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;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><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Carlo Caduff</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;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><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Facilitators:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Rama Baru</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is a Professor at the Centre for Social Medicine
and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">Dr. Aditya Bharadwaj</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is a Professor of Anthropology & Sociology
at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b><span style="color:black">We request you all</span></b><b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"> to register using this
link</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5a1Q80t-QFuGP1-Wf4ADcw" target="_blank"><font size="4"><b><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5a1Q80t-QFuGP1-Wf4ADc</span></b><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">w</span></font></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US">We request you to forward this invitation
to those who may be interested.</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We
are sharing the announcement </span><a href="http://www.samawomenshealth.in/webinar-pandemics-and-public-health/with" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.samawomenshealth.in/webinar-pandemics-and-public-health/with</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> in case you want to share in your networks. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Sarojini
N: <a href="mailto:sarojini@phmovement.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">sarojini@phmovement.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Neelanjana
Das: <a href="mailto:sama.publichealth@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">sama.publichealth@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </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">
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