Sridhar Venkatapuram, Ph.D., a lecturer in global health and philosophy, and director of the Master of Science in Global Health & Social Justice at King’s College London, will present a lecture in the College of Public Health next month.
The lecture is sponsored by Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Rural Health Education Network, Center for Global Health and Development, and the Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health.
His lecture, “Is better resource allocation the solution to unjust health disparities?” will be at noon, Sept. 8, in the Maurer Center for Public Health, Room 3013. The lecture is open to the public.
Dr. Venkatapuram, an expert in global/public health, human rights, ethics and philosophy, has been at the forefront of health ethics and global health for more than 20 years. He aims to bridge normative reasoning, particularly about social justice, with relevant natural and social sciences related to human health.
Dr. Venkatapuram was a pioneer of the health and human rights movement as the first researcher at Human Rights Watch to examine HIV/AIDS and other health issues directly as human rights concerns; and at the age of 25 he was supported by the Ford Foundation to provide human rights training to the first cohort of Indian HIV/AIDS organizations.