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  1. 2024 HDCA Conference – Kolkata, India

    September 24-26, 2024

    Hosted by the Pratichi (India) Trust, the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), and Health Information Systems Program (HISP)

    “Crises, Capabilities and Commitment”

    The 2024 HDCA conference has special significance as 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of HDCA. The conference is being held in Kolkata, West Bengal, India – home of the first HDCA president, Professor Amartya Sen. The conference theme of Crises, Capabilities and Commitment has been chosen because the inter-linkages between these three ideas require in depth discussion.

    Many multi-faceted crises assail us. Some are global in scope, linked with the assault on our environment, violent conflicts, pandemics and humanitarian challenges. Some crises emerge from episodic events. Others emerge less dramatically linked with a backlash to transformations in social relations, or technologies. Crises, both episodic and cumulative, reveal deep inequalities in capabilities. Crises may be associated with both β€˜loud’ and β€˜silent’ capability deprivations, in areas such as education, health, disability, political participation and wellbeing. The immediate and visible fallout from crises may precipitate further inequalities in capabilities linked to loss of income and employment, inequity, food insecurity malnutrition, and polarization between groups. The conference will be a setting to discuss the forms of commitment needed to analyze and address many interlinked crises and their stress on capabilities.

     

  2. Podcast

    …’s book Health Justice: An Argument from the Capabilities Approach https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Health+Justice%3A+An+Argument+from+the+Capabilities+Approach-p-9780745650340 EPISODE 3: Introducing the Early Career Researchers and Practitioners Network https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q9S9fImlNKpI5sCDXZaxR In this episode we speak to organisers of the Early Careers Researchers and Practitioners Network.  Organisers Raphael Ng, Abigail Lennox, Doroth…

  3. CfP: On Poverty and Its Eradication

    …tted through this link, using the “Submit your manuscript” button: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/27921/ and must follow paper templates available here: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/author-guidelines#Templates Publishing solutions: – Manuscripts will be peer reviewed, and if accepted for publication, are subject to publishing fees, which vary depending on the article type (https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees). A dis…

  4. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. A Sociological Perspective

    …dition of the Research Topic will focus particularly on the challenges and complexities of industrial development in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. This Research Topic welcomes papers that will provide both theoretical and empirical findings. Potential issues include, but are not limited to: – Social and cultural aspects of technology transfer and global diffusion of groundbreaking technologies. – Supply chains and the global economy: threats an…

  5. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty. A Sociological Perspective

    …dition of the Research Topic will focus particularly on the challenges and complexities of poverty reduction in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. This Research Topic welcomes papers that will provide both theoretical and empirical findings. Potential issues include, but are not limited to: – New approaches to definitions and measurement of poverty in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. – Lived experience of poverty, inequality, and unfairness. – Meas…

  6. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. A Sociological Perspective

    …, immunization coverage, suicide rates, and reductions in the incidence of communicable diseases and mortality rates from non-communicable diseases. The pandemic threatens to reverse or stall much of this progress. As of June 2021, the global death toll from COVID-19 stood at 3.7 million, with manifold wider ramifications of the disease. Ninety per cent of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, and avai…

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