We truly ought to reject the uncritical celebration of corporate productivity metrics. A worker-centered public health agenda must operate on the foundational axiom that health, bodily autonomy, and dignity are mutually exclusive from contribution to capital accumulation. (n/n)

This is a system that thrives on depressed wages, long working hours with unpaid overtime, systematic suppression of trade unions, fragmented healthcare infrastructures, and a lack of legally binding employer accountability. (6/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

Interestingly: ~25% sewing machine operators suffered from uncorrected vision impairments in the study settings. What historical amnesia is it then to treat the sudden distribution of reading glasses as a brilliant standalone medical triumph? (5/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

Utility-based care makes human dignity conditional on corp extraction. And, this isn't in a vacuum. The global garment assembly line is deploying body-mounted recording and smart glasses. A tech of worker control and surveillance is already here. (4/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

So, if one’s right to health is legitimised only because of a +ve financial return, then, those who do not yield an immediate +ve ROI are implicitly rendered unworthy: the elderly, the disabled, or workers in structurally marginalised positions. (3/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

Within the boardrooms of international development agencies and CSR departments, occupational safety and health is granted institutional visibility only when it can be structurally coded as a driver of output and profitability. (2/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

Findings from a RCT in the garment factories of Karnataka re provision of reading glasses to workers: output boosted by 6% and 3x ROI in 3 months. In our article on @Countercurrents, I and @SGarimella argue this exposes a deeply sinister reality. (1/n) countercurrents.org/2026/07/…

.@SGarimella from @georgeinstitute and Leslie London from @UCT_SPH did a stellar session on Day 3! They looked into the history of health systems in India and SA; and the possibilities, challenges, imaginations, and political economies for Public-Private Partnerships in Health.

Day 2 of our @Complus2022 event involved a field trip to health care units of Sào Paulo, and a wonderful lunch by a social organization in the city. It was insightful to learn how health systems function in Brazil, so differently than in India.

We wrapped up Day 1 of our @Complus2022 event, having heard some spectacularly insightful and inspiring ideas around the learnings and findings around community participatation mechanisms in different teams (@georgeinstitute @uctphm , @SPARCIndia2, @cebrap )