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Janhavi Nilekani on Maternal Healthcare and Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Jan 5, 2023

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The Too Little Too Late Challenge in Maternal Health

02:17

The Challenge of Too Little Too Late

02:26

How Much of This Is a Problem of Scarcity?

02:20

Introduction

3min

Is There a Difference Between Cambridge and Bangalore?

5min

The Too Little Too Late Challenge in Maternal Health

2min

Health Care Facilities in India

2min

The Challenge of Too Little Too Late

2min

A New Approach to Maternity Care in India

2min

The Consent Issues in Childbirth and Maternal Health in India

4min

Is Epistiotomy Harmful?

2min

The Incentive Alignment of Incentives in India

2min

10.

What Are the Incentives That Make Maternity Care So Problematic?

2min

11.

Do Zen Births Are Much More Cost Effective

2min

12.

What Are the Side Effects of Cesareans?

2min

13.

The Ski Erosion of Vaginal Births in India

3min

14.

Traditional Midwifery in India - What Is the Difference?

2min

15.

What Happened in India?

5min

16.

Ayurveda Needs More R&D

2min

17.

Ayurveda

2min

18.

Are You Getting a CAT Scan or an Ultrasound?

2min

19.

Women's Health Issues in India

3min

20.

I've Had a Positive Birth Experience

2min

21.

I'm Here Is Going White Because It's Not Set Up Like This

2min

22.

Women in Healthcare

2min

23.

How Much of This Is a Problem of Scarcity?

2min

24.

The Incentive Problem in OBGYN

1min

25.

Astrika Foundation - What Do You Do?

3min

26.

How Many Midwives Do India Need?

2min

27.

Scaling Midwifery

5min

28.

The Feedback Loop for Birthing Centers

2min

29.

The Importance of Getting First-Hand Experience

4min

30.

Is There a Limit to Evidence-Based Decision Making?

2min

31.

Is There Role for Experimentation in Maternal Health?

2min

32.

The Importance of Subjective Knowledge and Decision Making Under Uncertainty

4min

In this episode, Shruti speaks with Janhavi Nilekani about India’s high rate of C-sections compared with vaginal births, problems with maternal healthcare, the present and future of Indian midwifery and much more. Nilekani is the founder and chair of the Aastrika Foundation, which seeks to promote a future in which every woman is treated with respect and dignity during childbirth, and the right treatment is provided at the right time. She is a development economist by training and now works in the field of maternal health. She obtained her Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard and holds a 2010 B.A., cum laude, in economics and international studies from Yale.

Recorded November 7th, 2022

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