Congrats Cherry! So that's what the camera's were about😁G Kang CMC Vellore (Official)

Curious about what happened to all the data that we collected as part of our initiative?

Wonder no more! We published it!📰

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'Lives of people in the global North seem to matter than lives of those in the global South'.

Something that was very evident during Covid times.

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Two members of the Himachal Legislative Assembly, Kewal Singh Pathania and Vipin Singh Parmar did us all a great favor.

They asked a question of the HP Ministry of Health to provide a list of all drugs that have failed testing in the last three years along

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Watch what happens as Gates Foundation stops paying article publishing fees, shifts to peer reviewed preprints, & advocates for “low-cost digital publishing platforms”.

I predicted this 5 years ago!

Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing cgdev.org/blog/advancing…

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Remember when we raised this issue back in 2022, we we were accused of maligning the Indian pharma industry?

Look what just dropped. Albendazole, a drug that is used for de-worming kids in India has been found to be NSQ. And look how many batches:

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Important study confirming that anemia prevalence among women is high, but less than half due to iron deficiency. Importance of a nutritious, diverse diet with adequate protein & micronutrients is obvious, iron supplements alone insufficient Ministry of Health ICMR NITI Aayog

Announcing the call for #internship applications for the ICMR Health Communications Internship Program (IHCIP)! Students from #PublicHealth , #Communications & #Journalism backgrounds are encouraged to apply! For more details: t.ly/t_OrD Department of Health Research, MoHFW Ministry of Health

Paper out! #Adolescents perspectives on #deworming for #STH - insights into best practices of MDA delivery - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38471161/

Heading back home from #crypto2024 meeting organised by Boris Striepen ChrisHunter - reconnecting with collaborators & friends & making new connections - buzzing with ideas…need to keep this momentum!

#Parasite EQAS @offcmcvellore Monthly Challenge 06: What is your #diagnosis ? Answers out on 18th March

Happy to see #NationalDewormingDay bserved in #Sikkim covering ages from 1-19 years , using updated IEC material , in and out of school supporting #Nutrition as a critical area for support-Healthy children make heathy future !@NRHMSikkim JhpiegoIndia UNICEF India Nutrition International

Join us tomorrow March 5th at 4 pm CET for the joint IDSA/ESCMID webinar “Decode the Potential of AI in AMR Prevention and Detection”!

There are still spots left and the registration is free of charge. Don't miss this innovative topic!

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Fantastic - this really opens this out to many more researchers esp in #LMIC CZI Science Oxford Nanopore @czi

On #mentors NEJM - fleeting encounters with massive insights & now from younger too - 'With some I’ve had decades-long relationships, and others have mentored me effectively in a single meeting....more and more recently, several have been younger' nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

🌍 Sub-grants available for projects in #bioinformatics and #wastewater environmental surveillance (WES) across Africa, South Asia, and Latin America 💻💧🌱

#Funding to support #publichealth initiatives in LMICs.🌐

Apply now and make a difference! 🔗

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Call for DST-SERB Karyashala program @ CSIR-NIIST CSIR, India N Kalaiselvi DSTIndia CSIRJIGYASA #spectroscopy #cellularimaging

2024 Annual Meeting dates have been shifted to November 13-17. Taylor Swift concerts were scheduled the weekend of our original dates, bringing up to 250K fans to NOLA. Shifting dates will help our attendees access #TropMed24 as affordably as possible. tinyurl.com/5b36ut2s

Over 50% of students polled that they have had no form of training whatsoever in research poster design. A vacuum, considering poster presentations are a key part of sci-comm in their careers. Supported by our outreach grant from IndiaBioscience.org, we are offering a FREE virtual…

Day 3 #onehealth CMC Vellore (Official) - Gavin Smith Duke-NUS Medical School and Kanta Subbarao Doherty Institute talks on pandemic #influenza and vaccines chaired by their former and future mentee Mahesh Moorthy