Digital Discourse Interviews

  Dr. Shyama Kuruvilla is Director ad interim  of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre in Jamnagar, India. Over the past 11 years at WHO, she has held a range of senior policy and management roles to advance health evidence, equity and access. As Senior Strategic Adviser in WHO’s Universal Health Coverage and Life Course division, Dr Kuruvilla was technical lead for the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage, and is the former director of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel on women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health. Dr Kuruvilla holds a PhD. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an MSc. from Cornell University, and an undergraduate degree from the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India. Malini Shankar of Digital Discourse Foundation (DDF) in Bangalore engaged with Dr. Kuruvilla for an insightful, expert interview for Biodiversity Day that is marked on...

  1.       Please spell out your vision for tiger reserves management and tiger conservation. I would like you to spell out the vision of late PM Mrs. Indira Gandhi when she set up Project Tiger as a project that will protect habitat for prey base of the tiger too. The vision document of NTCA/Project Tiger (Amrit Kaal Ka Tiger Vision: Tiger@2047) highlights the following:   Vision: Securing Tigers for Posterity. Goal: To maintain a viable and sustainable population of tiger in the wild based on carrying capacity of the habitat and to bring all potential tiger habitat under the coverage of Project Tiger. Objective: To ensure maintenance of a viable population of tiger in India for scientific, economic, aesthetic, cultural and ecological values and presence for all times, areas of biological diversity for benefit, education and awareness of the society. Perspective: ·         Mascot of livelihood and sust...