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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is a public-health historian of South Asia with a focus on the politics of health, medicine, and science in the global South. She is an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2018). icon

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By David Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, & Kavita Sivaramakrishnan

Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.

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