In this podcast series, Kamran Abbasi, executive editor of The BMJ will convene experts from South Asia to discuss how the pandemic has affected the region, how measures like lock-down and vaccination have been handled, and the impact of the pandemic on the social determinants of health.

In this first podcast, we're focussing on India and Nepal, and are joined by;

Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India.

Biraj Swain, who works in global development in Asia and East Africa, is a senior media critic

and Buddha Basnyat, director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal.

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