An upcoming center for building up theoretical work based on long-term ongoing work at the [Institute of Public Health Bengaluru](http://www.iphindia.org) ### Resources for theorising 1. Epidemiology & people's health: Resources created by the [Krieger Research Group at HSPH](https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/krieger-group/) Her seminal book has seen [a recent edition](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/epidemiology-and-the-peoples-health-9780197695555?prevNumResPerPage=20&prevSortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&sortField=8&type=listing&facet_narrowbybinding_facet=Ebook&lang=en&cc=us) too 2. **Self-estrangement by experts in the Indian state**: Using the COVID-19 response of public health experts as a case, there is an argument that experts critical of the state - given the nature of the State's position on State-critical expertise - self-estrange themselves from their expertise and focus much more on aspects of public policy and programming that is relatively less important to the State. See [Mistree, Mohammed & Shah (2024) in Indian Politics & Policy](https://www.ippjournal.org/uploads/1/3/6/5/136597491/experts_in_estrangement.pdf) 3.