The Center is engaged in a wide range of projects focusing on public health topics.
Below is a snapshot of current and recent projects from the India Research Center:
The Harvard Chan India Research Center is providing seed grant funding to early career researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For the year 2022-23, pioneering research projects led by Dr Manish Kumar and Dr Matthew Shupler have been funded. ‘Identification of histone lactylation in Plasmodium falciparum as an epigenetic marker of disease severity’ by Dr Manish Kumar Lactic acidosis or lactic acid build up in the…
Harvard Chan in collaboration with the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation (KSCF) is creating evidence-based and trauma-informed educational videos for children rescued from child labor. The project is led by Dr. Bizu Gelaye, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology at Harvard Chan, and Ms. Vinni Bhandari, CEO of OnRamp and Project Advisor to KSCF, and design support has been provided by Medical Aid Films, UK. The team is also supported by Elizabeth…
The goal of this faculty-initiated research project is to make the Harvard Chan School India Research Center a one-stop place to disseminate the latest evidence base on major public health problems in India. This initiative has a two-fold aim: (a) to build a knowledge repository that will create a dash board for stakeholders to obtain the latest evidence on public health subjects; (b) to build capacity among major stakeholders from…
At the request of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Harvard Chan and India Research Center have partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop India’s first Poshan Atlas (agro-food database) to encourage dietary diversity and control of non-communicable diseases like obesity and diabetes Led by Dr. Lindsay Jaacks, assistant professor of Global Health at Harvard Chan, the team will create the first-ever database in the world…
At the request of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Harvard Chan India Research Center have partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to document and evaluate “promising practices” for social and behavioural change communications (SBCC) to promote Jan Andolan. Led by Dr K. Viswanath, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the project aims to delineate current SBCC strategies,…
Lead by Dr. Richard Siegrist, Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard Chan, India Center is developing a case study on the Total Health program, a CSR initiative being implemented by the Apollo group in Aragonda, Andhra Pradesh. The study aims to conduct an in-depth case study of the Total Health Program, a comprehensive model for addressing community health with an applied focus on prevention of diabetes and hypertension.…
India Research Center has placed itself at the forefront of addressing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in India. Dr Shilpa Bhupathiraju, Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is working with the Ambuja Cement Foundation to evaluate the foundation’s CSR program on comprehensive management of non-communicable diseases (NCD) with a focus on prevention of Hypertension and Diabetes. IRC is currently running an evaluation of the NCD intervention through…
In collaboration with Government of Maharashtra, the workshop will be led by Dr. Milind Tambe of Harvard Chan and University of Southern California. The half-day workshop will include participants from Microsoft Research India, Everwell, Wadhwani AI.
India Center is currently developing a curriculum on Public Health aimed at building the capacity of health workforce. Scope of the curriculum includes modules on fundamentals in public health and a relevant infectious disease course. Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has offered the lndia Research Center to partner on supporting the National Telemedicine Portal for launch of an eLearning course. Office of Education at Harvard Chan will be supporting…
Jennifer Sittig, MPH 2019 conducted a mixed methods gap analysis in order to 1) identify gaps in existing mental health research in Mumbai, and 2) expose challenges and opportunities for addressing mental health through perspectives of local mental health experts. Her research was partially supported through the Rose Service Learning Fellowship at Harvard Chan. The faculty advisor for this project was Dr. Bizu Gelaye of Harvard Chan.
