As a doctor and humanitarian worker for more than two decades, I've seen the devastating impact of neglected tropical diseases on the poorest. The vulnerable need safer, simpler, effective life-saving treatments for #NTDs. Support Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative on #WorldNTDDay for #BestScienceforAll.

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.

Bioethics guru in India, Dr Vasantha Muthuswamy passed away tonight. She is renowned for propagating and leading bioethics movement in India. A pioneering, woman researcher/ leader in STEM! ICMR Department of Health Research, MoHFW #WomenInSTEM #ICMR #bioethics #researchethics

"Ethical AI" is becoming a popular catchphrase in research and policy circles. But how many scholars from the Global South engage with these questions meaningfully? In this Nature Machine Intelligence piece, my coauthors and I make the case for more rigorous scholarship from India ...

Latest op-ed by @NCAER faculty Bornali Bhandari and Ajaya K Sahu on measuring urban employment/unemployment across city tiers captures the nuances of the urban economic parameters. ncaer.org/news/measuring…

🧵👇3/3 #TNKET to #EndTBDeaths #DifferentiatedTBCare ⬇️More details on #TNKET⬇️ Here is the 'experience sharing' / capacity-building article published in Global Health Action tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… x.com/icmr_nie/statu…

What health systems research in India has taught us about workplace gender issues...the world over opml.co.uk/blog/what-heal…

Women & Work - what caught our eye in March 2023 Check out the exciting Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) newsletter, where I recommend papers, books & movies you must absolutely read/watch. Which ones? Click to find out! Akshi Naila Kabeer Caroline Criado Perez open.substack.com/pub/womenandwo…

Today in Nashville “YOU BAN BOOKS, YOU BAN DRAG— KIDS ARE STILL IN BODY BAGS.” Students demanding gun safety chant

You gotta watch this speech from Rep Justin Jones as Tennessee Republicans attempt to expel him and two others for simply standing with students demanding gun safety. Republicans know they are on the losing side of history. This is proof #TenneseeThree

Thank you Sonalde Desai ! We are recruiting. If you are passionate about women's economic power & using evaluation & evidence for impact, please apply!

Sonalde Desai, Professor and Centre Director NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre and Distinguished University Professor Univ of Maryland BSOS @ UMD delivered Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of Population Association of America PAA in New Orleans

#MeetThePanelists ✅Speaker-Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi, Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Technology, Delhi ✅Discussant-Dr. M Vishnu Vardhana Rao, Former Director, ICMR-NIMS, New Delhi ✅Moderator-Dr. Saritha Nair, Scientist-E, ICMR-NIMS, New Delhi

Congratulations, Barnard Class of 2023! You are now graduates. We are SO proud of you! 💙🐻 #Barnard2023

🤷🤷‍♀️New data: SHRUG 2 is out!! Development Data Lab has been working on this for two years, a HUGE update to India’s coolest data platform: 1. Maps of *every* 2011 town and village, with ids 2. All data at every geography (villages, districts, ACs, etc)... devdatalab.org/shrug 🧵1/N

NCAER’s National Data Innovation Centre is hosting a web-based panel discussion with eminent data journalists and leading data producers to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by both sides. 🗓️15th June 2023 🕙 6:30 pm IST Register Here: bit.ly/3Nj7QCL

Nurses & Doctors, join us in Trivandrum for a 6 weeks Certificate Course in Pain Management and Palliative Care, and learn from the experts. Course begins on 4 September 2023 Register Now: palliumindia.org/2023/06/ccppm-… Contact us: [email protected] / (+91) 85899 98760

"It is vital that citizens can imagine, contest, and negotiate what to legitimately expect from their health system." 📣 New Analysis ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/8/7/e0…

📅 Webinar Alert! How can we create a conducive environment for nurses to step into leadership roles? Join a distinguished panel of experts for a webinar hosted by GenderCollab. 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 30 ⏰ Time: 5:30 to 7:00 pm IST 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3P59g5N

Friends have tweeted about this kindly, but excited to start a new podcast series Bhakti Republic. First episode set in 20th century Bombay. Banaras of Kabir, Raidas next. Varkaris, Vachanakaras to come. Fantastic production by prashant vasudevan Akshay Ramuhalli et al. youtube.com/watch?v=lxX9-Z…