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Janhavi Nilekani on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-Based Decision-Making
Ideas of India
English - January 05, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBSocial Sciences Science Society & Culture development india publicpolicy economics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Shruti speaks with Janhavi Nilekani about India’s high rate of C-sections compared with vaginal births, problems with maternal healthcare, the present and future of Indian midwifery and much more. Nilekani is the founder and chair of the Aastrika Foundation, which seeks to promote a future in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity during childbirth, and the right treatment is provided at the right time. She is a development economist by training and now works in the field of maternal health. She obtained her Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard and holds a 2010 B.A., cum laude, in economics and international studies from Yale.
Recorded November 7th, 2022
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