[Reader-list] Lecture on Equity & Health by Dr Gita Sen on 6th Feb in Bombay

[Chandni Parekh]

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From: Sana Contractor <sanacontractor at gmail.com>
Date: 2 February 2010
Subject: Fourth K R Memorial Lecture on Contemporary Issues in Health and
Social Sciences by Dr Gita Sen on 6th Feb 2009



 Dear Chandni,

CEHAT is hosting the 4th KR Memorial Lecture on 6th February at Mumbai
University. Gita Sen, a fantastic speaker and a true visionary, will be
delivering a lecture on 'Equity and Health'. I highly highly recommend it,
particularly to students or professionals in the development sector.

I would appreciate if you could circulate this to your network.

Love,

Sana.


Center for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)

with

eSocialSciences;  Dept. of Economics, Mumbai University;

P.G. Dept. of Economics, SNDT Women’s University and

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)



*Cordially invite you to the Fourth Anusandhan Trust’s***

*Krishna** Raj Memorial Lecture on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social
Sciences***

*On*

*“EQUITY AND HEALTH”*

By Dr. GITA SEN

*Professor at Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management,
Bangalore*

On February 6, 2010 (3:30 pm to 5:30 pm)

At Marshal Hall, Jawaharlal Nehru Library,

University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E), Mumbai

* *

*The Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied themes (CEHAT)* is hosting
the *Fourth K R Memorial Lecture on Contemporary Issues in Health and Social
Sciences*, instituted by Anusandhan Trust in 2006. The Lecture series was
instituted by Anusandhan Trust in 2006, to honor the intellectual and
academic traditions set in place by Krishna Raj, social scientists and
visionary editor of the *Economic and Political Weekly (EPW)*. This is by
way of a humble tribute to the memory of Krishan Raj.  The First Krishna Raj
Memorial Lecture on “ Making and Un-making Poverty” by Prof Anirudh Krishna
of Duke University, USA.


This year’s Lecture is being delivered by Dr Gita Sen, eminent social
scientist from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prof Sen is at
the Centre for Public Policy and her work on Equity, Gender and Health has
been path-breaking. She also currently anchors the *Gender and Health Equity
Project, Koppal district* (*Karnataka)*, amongst many other projects. She
has been Member, Taskforce on Research Priorities for Equity in Health,
World Health Organisation, 2004-2005. Notable among her work is the report
to  WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health by the Women and Gender
Equity Knowledge Network, * Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient:
Gender inequity in health* - *Why it exists and how we can change it*, in
2007 that drew attention to the challenges that remained in bringing about
gender equity in health care. Notable among her other publications is
*Engendering
International Health: the Challenge of Equity*, (The MIT Press, 2002)`. Prof
Sen will talk on ‘Equity and Health’.

* *

*Anusandhan Trust (AT)** was founded in 1991 to establish and run
democratically managed institutions to undertake research on socially
relevant health and allied themes and initiate and participate in advocacy
efforts on relevant issues concerned with the well being of the
disadvantaged and the poor in collaboration with organizations and
individuals working with and for such people. Social Relevance, Ethics,
democracy and accountability are the four operative principles that drive
and underpin the activities of AT’s institutions. The Trust governs three
institutions: CEHAT is one of the institutions that it runs along with  SATHI
(Support for Advocacy and Training in Health Initiatives) and CSER (Centre
for Studies in Ethics and Rights). *



For more information please call 2667 3571/ 26673154, mail to -
cehat at vsnl.com. Or log on to http://www.cehat.org/go/KRMemorialSeries