Introducing Arogya Haadi Podcast

A podcast series on all things public health in Karnataka

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Vision

A society that is egalitarian and free of oppression & injustice.

Mission

To strive for a just and equitable health system that enables people to live dignified lives.

Objectives

  1. Enable marginalised and working class communities to build accountability in systems that determine people’s health.
  2. Strengthen people’s health movement in Karnataka & India
  3. Shape the discourse around community health / public health in India towards a people-centric narrative.
  4. Grow the tribe of people working for health for all.
  5. To evolve a sustainable model for work on social justice.

Values

  • Love
  • Sense of solidarity
  • People over processes over tools
  • Rationality
  • Respect
  • Openness

Action Areas

  1. Movement solidarity
  2. Transformative pedagogy
  3. Appropriate technology for social impact
  4. Digital humanities and scholarship

A society becomes equitable by a continuous process of questioning and dismantling existing power and oppressive structures of caste, gender, capitalism, and so on. Collective action with hope and rationality is the way forward to bring about such cultural change. Thus, we set up Action for Equity as an attempt for sustainable social change.

Our Projects

Arogya Haadi

Arogya haadi is a platform that aims to engage the public in Karnataka in issues related to health systems. Discussions are on issues pertinent to people-centered design of public health system.

Building Social Accountability in Healthcare

Mapping public health centres with people’s lived experiences accessing them, reducing information asymmetry, and raising people’s voices

Our Friends and Work We Do With Them

Sarvatrika Arogya Andolana – Karnataka

We are contributing to SAA-K through fundraising, documentation, research, advocacy, coordination, field work. We are part of the working committee, Bengaluru samiti, website team, and social media team.

Neralu

We have worked with Neralu in documentation of their work, building an online presence, and helping raise funds.