Anand Grover, one of India's leading human rights litigators, will reflect on the current state of democratic backsliding in India and how science is being sacrificed in public policy while the courts stand by without intervention.
For over four decades, Grover has argued and won major cases in the Indian Supreme Court and High Courts advancing LGBTQ rights, access to life-saving medicines, the rights of people living with HIV, and many others.
Trained as a biochemist, Grover is a pioneer in using science to advance health rights in India and worldwide as the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2008-14).
During the second wave of COVID-19 in India, beginning in March 2021, the national response sacrificed evidence-based science and policymaking to devastating effect.
Grover will be introduced by Pozen Faculty Board member Renslow Sherer, a professor in the Department of Medicine–Infectious Diseases and Global Health.
Cosponsored by The Law School and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.