Siddharth Agarwal
A physician, Siddharth Agarwal works in medicine, public health research-programming, nutrition, community empowerment, urban health, well-being, policy & program support to National, State governments since 35 years. Director, Urban Health Resource Centre, a non-profit working to address health, nutrition, well-being of deprived urban dwellers, through demonstration programs, research, policy support, advocacy. Was Advisor to WHO – S.E. Asia Regional Office, WHO Centre for Health & Development, Japan, expert UNHabitat HQ Nairobi; Expert Group Member, Global Committees of Rockefeller Foundation, International Society of Urban Health. Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Dept. Global Health, George Washington Univ. School of Public Health & Health Services; Guest Faculty Indian Institute of Public Health, IIHMR University, TERI University, Institut d'Etudes Politiques Sciences Po, Paris, UC Berkeley, Touro College of Pharmacy. Executive Board Member International Society of Urban Health - 2008 to 2014, the Society’s President in 2010-11. He has been featured speaker at workshops, consultations on community health, nutrition, policy, practice in many States of India, National consultations, speaker at United Nations consultations, ISUH conferences, World Forums in several countries.
Recipient of AXA Outlook Award 2014, a nomination based award of Paris based AXA Research Fund. Was honoured with the Rotary Vocational Service Award for his services towards the betterment of the underprivileged segment of the society by Rotary Club of Meerut, his home town in India. Member Editorial Board J Urban Health; Reviewer - Food Security, Indian J. Community Medicine, International J. of Epidemiology, Health Promotion International, Oxford University Press, J. of Global Health, World Development, Habitat International, J. Environment and Public Health and J. of Health Care for Poor & Underserved
Recipient of AXA Outlook Award 2014, a nomination based award of Paris based AXA Research Fund. Was honoured with the Rotary Vocational Service Award for his services towards the betterment of the underprivileged segment of the society by Rotary Club of Meerut, his home town in India. Member Editorial Board J Urban Health; Reviewer - Food Security, Indian J. Community Medicine, International J. of Epidemiology, Health Promotion International, Oxford University Press, J. of Global Health, World Development, Habitat International, J. Environment and Public Health and J. of Health Care for Poor & Underserved
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countries. The project period was April 2004 to December 2007.
A number of other studies in the past have shown that the role of the private sector can be problematic, perhaps even more so in India than in the other participating countries. At the same time, there has been
a push of public-private partnerships. The workshop intended to discuss the rationale, the benefits and limitations and risks of this strategy. Even if there are examples of successful partnerships that serve sound public health purposes, such partnerships may not address the structural problems that establish effective access barriers for the poor. Based on research that provided a critical assessment of the role of the private sector the workshop should develop relevant strategies to address public health problems related to the role of the private-for-profit health sector. The overall purpose of the project was to identify viable strategies for strengthening ethical practice in the private healthcare sector in poor neighbourhoods through feasible and locally acceptable control mechanisms and other possible means.
It was believed that this is only possible through a combined understanding of patients’, private practitioners’ and drug vendors’ perspectives. Health ethics, in this connection, may be broadly
understood as a consensus-based normative regulatory framework that primarily works to protect patients against iatrogenic adverse events when utilizing the health system. The existing scientific literature shows that a framework of this type is not in place, or is not working to the desired effect, in a number of countries in South- and Southeast Asia.
The project consisted of four sub-studies that complemented each other in order to give a detailed and multi-faceted understanding of the local health systems under study:
1) Existing regulatory mechanisms, including ethical codes and legislation with direct implications for general private practitioners: desk study
2) Health systems ethics among private practitioners: ethnographic sub-study
3) Family-level treatment and health-related decision-making: interview sub-study
4) Household survey: health economics sub-study
The project was funded by the Danida Council for Development Research (RUF, after 2006 renamed to FFU) with a budget of four million DKK covering a period of three years (2004-07).
The workshop During 20-22 June 2007, a 3-day workshop was held at Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand, to disseminate findings of this and related research in the region and develop policy implications.