#2: Health Justice & The Capability Approach with Sridhar Venkatapuram

10/08/2023 36 min
#2: Health Justice & The Capability Approach with Sridhar Venkatapuram

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Episode Synopsis

In episode 2, we discuss the Capability Approach and health justice with Sridhar Venkatapuram.Sridhar discusses the philosophical implications of differing ways of seeing rights to health justice, and how the Capability Approach can help connect rights & policy. Sridhar has worked on health ethics for 30 years. He has won numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including Wellcome Trust Research and Senior Research Fellowships. He has been elected to prestigious professional organizations, commissions, and panels including the RSA, Faculty of Public Health, Human Development and Capability Association, and Lancet-Univ. of Oslo Panel on Global Governance for Health. Sridhar is a fellow of the HDCA.For more information on Sridhar, and on the application of capabilities work to health justice, you can check Sridhar's book Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approachhttps://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Health+Justice%3A+An+Argument+from+the+Capabilities+Approach-p-9780745650340On Twitter, follow @Capabilityapp on Facebook, search HDCA If you'd like to discuss the podcast, you can mail me at [email protected] or via the HDCA.Music is by MuertitoProduced by Verity watts