**Sanjoy Bhattacharya** is a Professor of History of Medicine, Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories at the University of York, UK. His research is focused on the history of international health in South Asia and wider afield, as well as contemporary global, international and national health policy.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A.

**Roy S Fischel** is a Senior Lecturer in the History of South Asia at SOAS University of London. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 2012. His work focuses on state, society, ideology, and identity––and the intersection between them––in early modern South Asia and the Muslim world. His first monograph, Local States in an Imperial World: Identity, Society and Politics in the Early Modern Deccan, was published in 2020 by Edinburgh University Press and the Royal Asiatic Society. His current work examines Persian historiography and politics in the Deccan Sultanates.