Senior Fellowship (WHO Placement & Global Health Justice Research) (360G-Wellcome-208515_Z_17_Z)

This proposal seeks support for an 18-month senior fellowship. The fellowship enables (1) placement at WHO GHE unit to help develop an ethical framework for ageing policies (‘just global ageing policies’) through a global, collaborative and comprehensive multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral process, and incorporating WHO policy related documents. The framework would be informed by the fellow's (Venkatapuram) expertise in health justice philosophy and the capabilities approach previously cited by the WHO in the 2015 World Report on Ageing and Health. An ethical framework for addressing the needs of a specific social group (elderly) would be a distinctly new type of output for bioethics and the WHO compared to ethical guidelines for specific disease interventions or events (epidemics). The fellowship also enables (2) philosophical research on global health justice. Venkatapuram seeks to extend his argument for a human right to the capability to be healthy (CH)--presented in Health Justice (Polity, 2011) and in the WT funded project Population Level Bioethics and CA (WT 094245))--to global health governance and institutions. The research outputs will include two journal articles, short commentaries, lectures, and a monograph. The monograph proposal is being developed with Harvard University Press. 40% of time will be spent on this research.