Description
The 21st century has witnessed a greater number of pandemics and epidemics in just two decades which leads us to give more emphasis on health security. The recent global pandemic has revealed that the current mainstream approaches to health security have failed to secure people from such serious health disasters. Although state and non-state actors have given health priority, the current trends in policy-making within the health sector have failed to enhance the security of people. Moreover, the neoliberal economic policies, which are historically specific to our times and have impacted every aspect of our lives, have also influenced the framing of health security and policies. This paper has tried to look at the influence of neoliberal economic policies on health security and in policy-making regarding the health sector by state and non-state actors in the context of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. India, which is part of the global south, has embraced neoliberal policies in the last decade of the 20th century. This is why the paper has taken the case study of India and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper will look at the influence of neoliberal policies in the health sector and the public sector vaccine institutions of India. Further, the paper looks at how this influence of neoliberal policies has impacted the Indian health sector and vaccine institutions during the pandemic.
