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TB diagnostic innovations: Can India take the lead?
Guest blog post by Dr Madhukar Pai No country has more cases of tuberculosis (TB) than India. Research from India played a critical role in the development of the global strategy to stop TB. Yet, Indian industry and academics have ...
Developing a framework for community based screening, risk profiling and assessing the true diabetes burden in South Indian Rural Populations by linking Casual Plasma Glucose and Body Mass Index
Worldwide the prevalence of diabetes amongst other chronic diseases is increasing. To facilitate diabetes management in a community setting for rural Indian populations, IKP Centre for Technologies in Public health (ICTPH) conducted a baseline survey in 2008-09, leading to the ...
Essential Health System Design Innovation – A Speech by Dr. Nachiket Mor at the TB Diagnostics Conference in Bangalore, India
By Nachiket Mor, Member, Board of Directors – ICTPH August 25-26, 2011; St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, India Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership, Dr. Lucica Ditiu; Deputy Director, Tuberculosis, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Peter Small; and distinguished conference ...
Delivering healthcare to rural populations: A matter of scale?
By Diego Rios Zertuche, Intern – ICTPH Reducing the rural/urban inequality of access to health services in India is an issue of great concern. Despite the rapid economic growth of the country in the last decade, more than 716 million ...