In this episode, Prof. Rama Baru, from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, is in conversation with Ms. K Sujatha Rao, former union secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India and Prof. Jishnu Das from Georgetown University, Washington DC.

They discuss the lessons that can be learnt for regional cooperation from experience of the Covid19 pandemic, the state of public health infrastructure in the BBIN region and ways of leveraging individual and institutional cooperation on knowledge and health data for improving global pandemic preparedness.