Some evidence on vaccine hesitancy and vaccine equity in India, based on work with Aarushi Bhatnagar (1/4) Vaccinating 2 billion and beyond in India blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinso… via World Bank

Silver line to Covid cloud: More students want degrees in public health Kritika Sharma Kritika Sharma reports for ThePrint bit.ly/3tYiR42

Heal Well India Survey studies impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of healthcare workers. Let’s get to know who all are our healthcare workers. Help us by sharing & filling the survey bit.ly/3FOdOW9 #StillNotOver

On budget eve, some evidence on awareness & targeting of India’s PM-JAY health insurance program for the poor, jointly with Aarushi Bhatnagar Navneet & S. Chhabra, based on survey of over 100k households in 2021 pmjay.gov.in/sites/default/… (1/5)

COVID-19-related lockdowns may have contributed to the death of hundreds of thousands of children under the age of five in 129 of the world’s low-middle-income countries in the first year of the pandemic blogs.worldbank.org/health/excess-… @worldbank David Bishai Joseph Millward Marcelo Cardona

Dr Anand Anand Krishnan said it!

Insuring India: PM-JAY’s targeting problem - Owen Smith & Sheena Chhabra (World Bank) ideasforindia.in/topics/human-d…

1/6 Just completed a longer than usual trip to #IncredibleIndia, including Delhi, UP and Gujarat. As India assumes #G20India Presidency & is on the cusp of becoming the world’s largest nation, I wanted to take stock of #healthsystems developments.

<Happening Now >The Asia-Pacific Health Financing Forum is off to a grand start. Opening address from Juan Pablo Uribe, Global Director -Health Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, emphasizes the need to protect the most vulnerable as we progress towards #UHC World Bank Health

#APHFF Helicopter view by the three practice managers ⁦Aparnaa Somanathan⁩, Feng Zhao and Ronald Mutasa. How do we make sure we have a strategy in our system to invest before crisis strikes. Peacetime is the best time to invest ⁦World Bank Health⁩ ⁦Ajay Tandon⁩ #uhc

Low quality services with poor coverage often reflects inadequate public financing. Increasing domestic resource mobilisation has to be part of the solution for most countries in the region. #APHFF World Bank Health Joint Learning Network The GFF Ajay Tandon Somil Nagpal

Prof Shinjini Bhatnagar,a physician scientist in pediatrics, is also in the top 2% of scientists in the Stanford List (career). Her work in maternal & child health has brought impactful clinical solutions.Dr Jitendra Singh Department of Biotechnology Rajesh Gokhale G Karthikeyan Shinjini Bhatnagar