Sridhar Venkatapuram MSc MPhil PhD FRSA
Sridhar's current research is in the areas of philosophy, ethics, and public health, or what is being called by some as 'population level bioethics'.
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Topics include:
- the place of health in theories of social justice, with primary focus on the capabilities approach
- the philosophical construction of a human right to health,
- global justice and health inequalities,
- the ethics of addressing social determinants of health and social gradient in health
- philosophy and ethics of health economics
- philosophy and ethics of epidemiology
If you are interested in the above topics you may find his personal blog interesting.
If you are looking for a health justice reading list you can find that here.
2011 - 2012 LSTHM ethics seminar/speaker schedule
Philosophy of Epidemiology workshops Organized by Alex Broadbent, Univ. of Johannesburg https://sites.google.com/site/philosepi/
26 March 2102. BRICS Summit. Shifting Paradigm. How BRICS are reshaping Global Health Report. http://www.ghsinitiatives.org/downloads/ghsi_brics_report.pdf
Biography
Sridhar Venkatapuram is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in ethics at LSHTM, and an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University. From 2008 to 2011 he was co-investigator on an ESRC-DFID research project with Sir Michael Marmot, Chair of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.
Sridhar has been at the forefront of health ethics and global health for over twenty years. He was awarded an honours distinction at Brown University for his undergraduate international relations dissertation on HIV/AIDS and human rights in the early 1990s well before HIV/AIDS was recognized widely as a global health and development issue; he 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. At Harvard, he worked with the late Arjun Sengupta, UN Independent Expert on the Right to Development, in conceptualizing its philosophical and ethical framework.
He has worked as a consultant for a range of international organizations including the Open Society Institute, the Population Council, and Doctors of the World-USA. He holds a number of degrees in a range of disciplines including international relations (Brown), public health (Harvard), sociology (Cambridge) and political philosophy (Cambridge). Sridhar has won numerous awards, scholarships, fellowships, and grants including exceptional cases where awards have been doubled. He secured his first major research grant while still completing his PhD. His doctoral dissertation on the moral right to 'the capability to be healthy' was supervised by Melissa Lane, and examined and passed without corrections by Amartya Sen, Nobel prize winning economist and philosopher. It formed the basis of his first book titled Health Justice: An argument from the capabilities approach published in 2011 by Polity Press.
In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship which fully supports a fellow for three years to undertake their own research agenda. He gives lectures on the philosophy and ethics of health, health inequalities, and health policy around the world, has recently been elected to the fellowship of the RSA, and will be a fellow of the UK Parliament Office of Science & Technology in 2012.
He is currently working on his second book which focuses on the modern history and current issues in global health ethics.
Affiliation
Research areas
- Equity
- Ethics
- Global Health
- Globalisation
- Health care policy
- Health inequalities
- Health policy
- Health status measurement
- Inequalities
- Public health
- Public understanding
- Research : policy relationship
- Science policy
- Social and structural determinants of health
Disciplines
- Development studies
- Economics
- Epidemiology
- Political science
- Social Policy
- Social Sciences
- Socio-legal studies
- Sociology
Regions
- OECD members
- South Asia
- World
Countries
- India
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Selected publications
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Towards a working definition of morality in public health
Brunner, E; Venkatapuram, S
Improving Health and Healthcare. Who is responsible? Who is accountable?, In Press;
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Health Justice. An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
Venkatapuram, S;
Polity Press 2011
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The right to sutures: Social epidemiology, human rights, and social justice
Venkatapuram, S.; Bell, R.; Marmot, M.
Health and Human Rights, 2010; 12(2)
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Global Justice and the Social Determinants of Health
Venkatapuram, S.
Ethics and International Affairs, 2010; 24(2):119-130
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A bird's eye view. Three topics at the intersection of social determinants of health and social justice theory.
Venkatapuram, S.
Public Health Ethics, 2009;
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Epidemiology and social justice in light of social determinants of health
Venkatapuram, S.; Marmot, M.
Bioethics, 2009; 23(2):78-89
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Survey of monitoring and measurement tools of health and human rights programs.
Venkatapuram, S.
Doctors of the World - USA. (New York) 2003
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