Drone Monitoring for Bettering the Air: Insights from Dr K J Ramesh on Science, Policy, and Technological Solutions
Air pollution in India is an escalating environmental and public health concern, contributing to a rise in respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. In this episode of GnY Live, Dr K J Ramesh, former D...
Nothing Pink About Your Health: In Conversation with Dr. Arvind Kumar on Health, Advocacy, and Action
Our lungs, the first respondents to the air pollution crisis, are no longer pink. It is spottled black and grey. Learn how risky the air is from the eye-opening revelations of Dr Arvind Kumar, Chairma...
Monitoring India’s Air Pollution: In conversation with Prof. Gufran Beig on Science, Policy, and Community Action
Air pollution is a significant crisis in India, contributing to severe health risks and environmental degradation. This G’nY blog summarises key insights from a podcast discussion with Prof. Gufran Be...
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IMapp-Modelling Immunisation Outreach in Far-flung Rural Clusters
IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic I...
Controlling the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Strong Healthcare Systems
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the subject of healthcare to the forefront. As such, it becomes pertinent to ask the question that why some countries are doing better than others in dealing with...
Voluntary Isolation of the Boti
As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, I am reminded of the indigenous group Boti and their remote, tiny kingdom in West Timor, Indonesia. When I visited them in 2017, I was in awe...
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IMapp-Modelling Immunisation Outreach in Far-flung Rural Clusters
IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Machine Learning (ML). The initiative demonstrated the suitability of porting public health data on a GIS platform to get good insights into the distr...
Controlling the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Strong Healthcare Systems
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the subject of healthcare to the forefront. As such, it becomes pertinent to ask the question that why some countries are doing better than others in dealing with this crisis? Does the answer lie in the difference in the healthcare system of various countries? In this article, we try to answer this question by looking at some of the features of the healthcare s...
Voluntary Isolation of the Boti
As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, I am reminded of the indigenous group Boti and their remote, tiny kingdom in West Timor, Indonesia. When I visited them in 2017, I was in awe of the sheer simplicity of their lifestyle. Strangers to electricity and machines, they are supremely self sufficient. Despite a tenuous existence, they are proof that a simple, secluded life can be a...