| Health Policy

The Covid 19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented interest in health and health care systems. Typically public interest in health care has been reactive triggered by incidents of medical negligence, deaths and violations. And such an interest as expected has been short-lived. There has been practically no sustained proactive engagement with the health sector by citizens, development practitioners or the academia. The Covid19 crisis does not seem to be going away in a hurry and is not allowing us to just ‘move on’ or revert to ‘business as usual’. This is slowly forcing development practitioners and the academia to engage with the health sector issues in a sustained manner, locate public health within the realm of socio- political realities rather than merely epidemiological or clinical issues of disease production and transmission.