The ICS-CSMCH Public Health Resource Portal is a repository of materials consisting of peer-reviewed articles, working papers, primary sources, books, and reports. Compiled under the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) and the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH), Jawaharlal Nehru University, the portal is aimed at expanding the scope of China Studies in Public Health and assisting scholars interested in engaging with this area. The database primarily focuses on resources related to public health and medicine in China. Most of the references pertaining to the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It covers the Mao period and later developments that include liberalization and health sector reforms from the late 1970s. The resource portal will include all the published materials that have been put together in the ICS Health Unit and as a part of the course on Comparative Health Systems offered by Prof. Rama Baru at CSMCH. It has been compiled to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students and established scholars interested in exploring and researching public health in China.
About the Speakers
Prof. Patricia Uberoi is an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. She served as the Chairperson of the Institute of Chinese Studies from 2015-2021. A sociologist by training, Dr. Uberoi has taught Sociology at the University of Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and retired as a Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research interests center on aspects of family, kinship, gender, popular culture, and social policy with respect to both India and China.
Prof. Rama V. Baru is a Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and an Honorary Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, India. She is also an Honorary Professor at the India Studies Centre, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. Her major areas of research interest include the commercialization of health services, infectious diseases, comparative health systems, and health inequalities.
Dr. Madhurima Nundy is a Fellow in Health and Human Development at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Prof. Alka Acharya is the Honorary Director of the ICS and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to Master's and M.Phil students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. She is the joint editor of Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008, and most recently edited a volume titled Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012).
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/instituteofchinesestudies/messageWednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion: ICS-HYI Doctoral Fellowship in China Studies | 15th December
Wednesday Seminar | Globalisation and a Pandemic: Revisiting the Mongol Empire | 8th December
Wednesday Seminar | Economic Reforms in North Korea: Likelihood and Policies | 24th November
Dangers of a US-China Military Conflict: Escalating Geopolitical Rivalry with No Exit Ramp?
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 13)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 12)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 11)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 10)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 9)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 8)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 7)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 6)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 5)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 4)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 3)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 2)
14th All India Conference of China Studies (Session 1)
Book Discussion | The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India | 5th November
Panel Discussion | The Financialization of Chinese Cities & the Real Estate Industry | 27th October
Wednesday Seminar | Tawang's linkages with Bhutan | 20th October
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