Aiming for health equity entails working for the best possible health for all people while paying particular attention to the needs of those who are more […]
Creating and sustaining a COVID-19 war room smartly
COVID-19 has been a comedy of errors confusing scientists, public health professionals and policy makers at every step. But historically, it serves to be hopeful […]
Letter to our Stakeholders 2021
Time flies! and yet again we concluded 2020-2021 as a year in the world. Our world today faces cascading risks that emerge from a pandemic […]
COVID-19 as an opportunity to cultivate CSR in Public Health.
The connection between CSR and public health entails corporate entities accounting for and reporting on public health. It also precludes a distinction between the essence […]
Combating COVID-19 by getting public health right
I have been a proponent of defeating COVID-19 by evidence based public health strategies. Much of this boils down to creating task force that is […]
Mobile Healthcare for COVID-19 response in Karnataka
HEALTH AND HOPE ON WHEELS India is currently facing the world’s worst surge in coronavirus infections, reporting about one in three of all newly confirmed […]
Help CHD Group in making India breathe
INDIA’S LEADING PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE A Brief Introduction of CHD Group: Born in 2014, CHD Group is India’s leading public health network […]
Community medicine as a specialty branch must assume national importance
MD in Community Medicine has been a branch in private confines in the previous decade and post-Independence India. It has necessarily started to bloom at […]
Minimizing the burden of cancer: priorities for management in India
With a burden of more than 1.2 million persons diagnosed with malignant diseases and over 0.7 million associated deaths in India per year, cancer remains […]
Understanding maternal mortality
What is maternal mortality? As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), “Maternal death is the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 […]