Getting the jab done
b'Southasian Conversation #2 | Himal Southasian\\n\\nLike the pandemic itself, the problems faced by the inoculation drives over the past few months has revealed to us the confines of public health and the need to confront existing political, social and economic structures of our societies. In this second edition of Southasian Conversation, a series of online crossborder conversation, we hope to sift through the information (and jargon) to bring you interdisciplinary perspectives on COVID-19 vaccinations in Southasia. In this wide-ranging public conversation, recorded on 29 April, the panel explored the debates on vaccine production and distribution, the crisis of global and regional collaboration, and what the challenges of COVID-19 vaccination tells us about our fraught social contract.\\n\\n\\u2022 Moderator: Thomas Abraham (Director of the Public Health Communications Programme at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong. Based in Bengaluru.)\\n\\nPanellists:\\n\\u2022 Zyma Islam (Data journalist and reporter for The Daily Star. Based in Dhaka.)\\n\\u2022 Ravindra Rannan-Eliya (Physician, economist and researcher. Executive Director and Fellow of the Institute of Health (IHP). Based in Colombo.)\\n\\u2022 Dwaipayan Banerjee (Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.)\\n\\u2022 Orzala Nemat (Afghan activist, scholar, political ethnographer and Director of Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). Based in London/Kabul.)\\n\\nhttps://www.himalmag.com/getting-the-jab-done-southasian-conversation-2-2021/\\n\\nThe full discussion is now available on Youtube: https://bit.ly/3xS5F0j \\nand Spotify: spoti.fi/3b6oTVZ\\nApple podcasts: apple.co/3tmuZrO'