This talk will examine how current discourse, clinical interventions, medical technologies, and policy responses to the opioid epidemic are racialized in the U.S., highlighting the role of whiteness and racial capitalism. We will trace how technologies of whiteness operated to respond to rising overdose deaths among whites…
Aurélien Saussay is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics in the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He currently holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022-2025). He will be visiting Harvard Kennedy School in the Fall Semester 2024.
Panelists will discuss: How caste, class, gender and regional politics shaped India's "shock" 2024 election results. The future outlook for India's democracy and politics, post-elections. And, a comparison of electoral prcesses in India and USA, with a short note on how the U.S. Presidential Elections might impact India and U.S…
Dr. Yukyan Lam is the Director of Research and a Senior Scientist at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School University, where she helps develop and manage the Center’s research portfolio. She is a social and behavioral public health scientist trained in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with a…
Dr. Denise Mauzerall is the William S. Tod Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs at Princeton University holding a joint appointment between the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research examines…
