One of CSD’s annual signature events is the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture.

The lecture is held every year on 15 July, the birthday of Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh and is delivered by an eminent expert or renowned personality on any subject of his/her choice relating to social development.

DDML 2023

Topic: “Decoding and Delivering Public Health”
by
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Founder (Past) President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and former head,  Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

Date: 15 July, 2023
Time: 6.30 PM
Venue: C.D.Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC Main, Max Muller Marg, New Delhi

Abstract

Health is an essential requirement for the development and welfare of individuals as well as populations. Health is often viewed as a domain which is distinctively divided into two separate worlds: clinical medicine and public health. Fundamentally, clinical medicine operates with the individual as the unit of observation and intervention, while public health has the population as the unit of study and service. While the health system is charged with the prime responsibility for delivering care, it is also necessary to recognise and respect the role of the community, not merely as beneficiaries but as active contributors to agenda setting, implementation and monitoring. For ensuring that a wide range of health services reach all of the entitled in the population, we need to design and deliver a strong programme of universal health coverage (UHC), which is best delivered when public financing accounts for a major portion of the health expenditure. Since health is profoundly influenced by social, economic, environmental and commercial determinants, it is imperative that those determinants are shaped to enable rather than erode health. Public health has emerged from the communion of medicine and social sciences. It is now a multi-disciplinary confluence of life sciences, quantitative sciences, social sciences and management sciences.

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DDML 2022
Migration, Informality, and the Growing Precarity of Work”
by Prof. Ravi Srivastava, Director, Centre for Employment Studies, Institute for Human Development, Delhi & Former professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

DDML 2021

The Janus Face of Agricultural Policies- Kisan and Sethias: Local and Global
by Yoginder K. Alagh, PH.D., Former Minister of Power Planning and Science & Technology India

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DDML 2019
The Heritage And Prospects Of Democracy
by Prof. Hiren Gohain, Eminent Intellectual and Former Professor of English Gauhati University was held at 6.30 pm on 15th July 2019, at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi.
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DDML 2018
Human Insecurity in South Asia: Challenging Market Injustice
by Prof. Rehman Sobhan, Eminent Economist from Bangladesh was held at 6.00 pm on 15th July 2018, at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi.
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Event Highlights 2017

A collection of these lectures from 1992 to 2010 was published in the form of a book under the title: Towards Just and Equitable Development”.

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