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Manish is the co-founder and CEO of Innovators In Health (IIH), a non-profit committed to ensuring high quality healthcare for the rural poor in India. He is also the founding director of an initiative at Princeton University's Keller Center to enable faculty in the humanities and social sciences to tackle our most pressing societal challenges. Manish was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Princeton where he has taught idealism, the nature of injustice and the path to justice. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT. He is a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.
Manish believes that enduring justice requires framing issues in moral terms, and using the vocabulary of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. Science, technology, engineering, innovation and design are powerful instruments, but they don’t tell us what the world ought to be, what the nature of injustice is, and how to wield these instruments in the pursuit of a better world. These are concerns of moral clarity. Over the past decade, IIH has served close to 100,000 patients in its tuberculosis, maternal and neonatal health, and maternal mental health programs. IIH has also been the bellwether for policy shifts towards more humane healthcare: delivering care to the patient’s doorstep, providing nutrition, advocating for fair pay for female community health workers, and ensuring high standards of care. Drawing inspiration from the late Paul Farmer, IIH works through accompaniment: journeying with the wronged – as equals – until right is done. |
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My monthly newsletter will examine current debates from a moral perspective, dig deeper into the foundations of justice and injustice, and critique approaches to justice. I will partner with you to pick topics.
Recent talks
Moral Clarity and the Path to Justice. At Syracuse University. October 1, 2022.
Moral Clarity. TED 2022. April 11, 2022.
Accompaniment as a Path to Justice. At the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, January 26, 2022.
The Nature of Injustice. At the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, January 19, 2022.
Moral Clarity and the Work of Social Justice. At the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, January 12, 2022. (Video)
Moral Clarity for the Work of Social Justice. Workshop at Princeton. January 10, 2022.
Can Social Entrepreneurship Deliver Social Justice? Keynote at the Innovation Forum at Princeton's Keller Center. October 7, 2021. Video (at 2:27:38)
Moral Clarity and the Path to Justice. At Syracuse University. October 1, 2022.
Moral Clarity. TED 2022. April 11, 2022.
Accompaniment as a Path to Justice. At the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, January 26, 2022.
The Nature of Injustice. At the Dalai Lama Center at MIT, January 19, 2022.
Moral Clarity and the Work of Social Justice. At the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, January 12, 2022. (Video)
Moral Clarity for the Work of Social Justice. Workshop at Princeton. January 10, 2022.
Can Social Entrepreneurship Deliver Social Justice? Keynote at the Innovation Forum at Princeton's Keller Center. October 7, 2021. Video (at 2:27:38)
Teaching
EGR/ENT 498: Entrepreneurship for the Idealist. Princeton University, Fall 2021. Please contact me if you'd like the syllabus!
EGR/ENT 498: Entrepreneurship for the Idealist. Princeton University, Fall 2021. Please contact me if you'd like the syllabus!