Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam
Biographic Data
| ID | 5129018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thilagawathi Abi Deivanayagam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thilagawathi Abi |
| FAMILY NAME | Deivanayagam |
| SIGNATURE | DEIVANAYAGAM T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1130-2333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Breaking free from tunnel vision for climate change and health
Climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat to public health this century, but ‘climate change and health’ often refers to a narrow and limited focus on emissions , and the impacts of the climate crisis, rather than a holistic assessment of economic structures and systems of oppression. This tunnel vision misses key aspects of the climate change and health intersection, such as the enforcers of planetary destruction such as the mil…
Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health
We are next generation leaders coming from the climate justice, medicine and public health, and planetary health movements, representing Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA), which are groups and territories disproportionately affected by the climate crisis -women, Indigenous Peoples, racialised people, LGBTQ+ people, young, and those facing social deprivation, and the Global South. Each time the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations…
Policing is a threat to public health and human rights
box The impact of policing on individual and collective well-being and human rights has gained renewed attention. In 2020, global protests against police violence, racism and white supremacy were met with further violence by state security actors. In Nigeria, at least 56 people were killed during protests in opposition to the Nigerian police force’s ‘Special Anti-Robbery Squad’ in October 2020 alone.1 Peripheral calls to defund and abolish the po…
Reclaiming comprehensive public health
Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of \nresponses to it in different countries and contexts. Acute emergencies often mobilise a short spurt of attention and resources. \nCOVID-19 is, however, a protracted pandemic that spreads through and exacerbates socioeconomic inequalities and stresses health and democratic systems in a way that calls or sustained respons…
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Reclaiming comprehensive public health
Over the past 6 months, we have witnessed diversity in the spread and severity of the COVID-19 and in the nature and timing of \nresponses to it in different countries and contexts. Acute emergencies often mobilise a short spurt of attention and resources. \nCOVID-19 is, however, a protracted pandemic that spreads through and exacerbates socioeconomic inequalities and stresses health and democratic systems in a way that calls or sustained respons…
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Policing is a threat to public health and human rights
box The impact of policing on individual and collective well-being and human rights has gained renewed attention. In 2020, global protests against police violence, racism and white supremacy were met with further violence by state security actors. In Nigeria, at least 56 people were killed during protests in opposition to the Nigerian police force’s ‘Special Anti-Robbery Squad’ in October 2020 alone.1 Peripheral calls to defund and abolish the po…
Achieving climate justice, safeguarding planetary health
We are next generation leaders coming from the climate justice, medicine and public health, and planetary health movements, representing Most Affected People and Areas (MAPA), which are groups and territories disproportionately affected by the climate crisis -women, Indigenous Peoples, racialised people, LGBTQ+ people, young, and those facing social deprivation, and the Global South. Each time the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations…
Breaking free from tunnel vision for climate change and health
Climate change is widely recognised as the greatest threat to public health this century, but ‘climate change and health’ often refers to a narrow and limited focus on emissions , and the impacts of the climate crisis, rather than a holistic assessment of economic structures and systems of oppression. This tunnel vision misses key aspects of the climate change and health intersection, such as the enforcers of planetary destruction such as the mil…
Political science (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mainstream (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)