NEW OPPORTUNITIES

GKII-KCDH Breakthrough Research Grant

Application Deadline: Feb. 9, 2024

The Breakthrough Research Grants Program provides funding for pilot projects led by faculty members from Koita Center for Digital Health, IIT-Bombay (KCDH), and Johns Hopkins University (JHU) that involve interdisciplinary collaborations. Digital technologies are increasingly being used to drive improvements in health outcomes. 

Proposals in the thematic areas of Non-Communicable Diseases, Mental Health, Infectious Diseases, Maternal and Child Health, Health Systems Strengthening, and Climate Change & Environmental Security will be preferred.

Become a GHEFP Program Site in India

Application Deadline: Dec. 6, 2023

The Gupta-Klinsky India Institute encourages affiliated faculty who are interested in having a student award recipient work on their project and site for a minimum of eight weeks to apply for the Global Health Established Field Placements (GHEFP) program.

This is a unique opportunity in which students work on faculty projects in developing nations to develop research and practical skills that help them become well-rounded global health professionals. 

EVENTS

15th Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop

The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and the Center for Communication and Change - India (CCC-I) jointly facilitated the 15^th Leadership in Strategic Communication Workshop-Asia Regional, in Gurugram, India.

The workshop, led by course directors Uttara Bharath Kumar, Senior SBC and Capacity Strengthening Advisor, CCP, Sanjeeta Agnihotri, Director, CCC-I, and Radha Rajan, Research and Evaluation Officer II, was designed to promote the common goal of improving the communication quality for better health outcomes, focusing on social and behavior change (SBC).

CIDI at the Union

The Center for Infectious Diseases in India at Johns Hopkins University, along with India partners, showcased progress, research and programing at the 2023 Union Conference on Lung Health. This is the world’s largest professional conference convened to review the latest scientific research on all aspects of lung health, including tuberculosis. Check out the photo gallery of the CIDI faculty and partner presenters and review the agenda!

Unpacking the Vital Links Between Climate, Health, and AI 

Convened in collaboration with Dasra's ClimateRISE Alliance and Indiaspora, the roundtable focused on mainstreaming the challenges and opportunities and fostering collective action to fuel AI interventions that address the intersection of Climate and Health.



If you missed our recent roundtable on the intersection of Climate, Health, and AI, you can listen to the proceedings on LinkedIn.

NEW IN RESEARCH

Land cover and forest health indicator datasets for central India using very-high resolution satellite data 

Scientific Data, Oct. 25, 2023

Satellite imagery has been used to provide global and regional estimates of forest cover. Despite increased availability and accessibility of satellite data, approaches for detecting forest degradation have been limited. We produce a very-high resolution 3-meter (m) land cover dataset and develop a normalized index, the Bare Ground Index (BGI), to detect and map exposed bare ground within forests at 90 m resolution in central India.

Khanwilkar S, Galletti C, Mondal P, Urpelainen J, Nagendra H, Jhala Y, Qureshi Q, DeFries R.

Overcoming challenges in managing a high-risk pregnancy with placenta previa and newly diagnosed Bombay phenotype 

Transfusion and Apheresis Science, Oct. 11, 2023

Management of patients with rare blood types can be extremely challenging and guidance for those presenting later in pregnancy is scarce. Our patient's gestational age precluded the use of well-known effective strategies, including hemoglobin optimization, autologous and directed donation, and procurement of large quantities of rare blood. Rather, our approach utilized multidisciplinary expertise and strategic planning to yield a successful outcome.

Van Denakker TA, Haddaway K, Cunningham A, Leonard K, Darwin K, Meeks M, Lawson SM, Vaught A, Moliterno A, Frank SM, Tobian A, Crowe E, Bloch E, Rai H.

Bloodstream infections in neonates with central venous catheters in three tertiary neonatal intensive care units in Pune, India 

Journal of Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, Oct. 11, 2023

We report a high bloodstream infection rate among neonates with central venous catheters admitted to three tertiary care NICUs in India. Action to improve infection prevention and control practices in the NICU is needed to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with BSI in this high-risk population.

Kartikeswar GAP, Parikh TB, Randive B, Kinikar A, Rajput UC, Valvi C, Vaidya U, Malwade S, Agarkhedkar S, Kadam A, Smith RM, Westercamp M, Schumacher C, Mave V, Robinson ML, Gupta A, Milstone AM, Manabe YC, Johnson J.

Leveling the Research Playing Field: Decolonizing Global Health Research Through Web-Based Platforms 

Journal of Medical Internet Research, Oct. 31, 2023

Global health research has traditionally been rooted in colonialism, with some investigators in high-income countries leading and managing research and investigators in low- and middle-income countries serving as implementing partners. The Community Health Worker-Led Intervention for Vaccine Information and Confidence (CIVIC) Project, conducted in India and led jointly by India- and US-based investigators, leveraged web-based platforms to facilitate a more horizontal, inclusive, and balanced approach to partnerships between researchers and the community.

Seth R, Dhaliwal BK, Miller E, Best T, Sullivan A, Thankachen B, Qaiyum Y, Shet A.

The Interplay of Gender and Perceived Sexual Orientation at the Bargaining Table: A social dominance and intersectionalist perspective 

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Nov., 2023

Our research breaks new ground by challenging well-established findings from the literature on gender and negotiations—particularly that women generally underperform men. By integrating research on MOSAIC theory, intersectional invisibility theory, and mismatching in negotiation, we suggest that this pattern may reverse for both lesbian women and gay men. Specifically, lesbian women may achieve better-than-expected negotiation outcomes, whereas gay men may achieve worse.

Desai S, Gunia B.

Human Resources for Health in Haryana, India: What can be Done Better? 

WHO South East Asia J Public Health, Jun. 12, 2023

A revamp of governance strategies is required to improve health-care worker availability and equitable distribution in the public health system to address the observed geographic variations. Efforts are also needed to improve the motivation levels of health system administrators, especially in poorly performing districts and reduce the wide gap with better-off districts.

Sharma A, Prinja S, Rao KD, Aggarwal AK.

Clinical characteristics and predictors of COVID-19 in a community sample from urban areas of Chennai, Southern India

Virus Disease, Oct. 10, 2023

In early 2020, with the arrival of the first case of COVID-19 in India, the laboratory at The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University was recognized as a national testing site and received samples from two zones of Greater Chennai Corporation. This descriptive study analyzed the testing outcomes, along with demographics, self-reported symptoms, potential exposure to COVID-19 that were recorded in Sample Report Forms between June and September 2020.

Murugesan, S., Ramamurthi, H.C., Jacob, S.M. et al.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

Global Grand Challenges Grants

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact. Individual challenges address some of the same problems, but from differing perspectives.

Google Research Scholars Award

The Research Scholar Program aims to support early-career professors who are pursuing research in fields relevant to Google. It is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.

They encourage submissions from professors globally who are teaching at universities and meet the eligibility requirements. It is their hope that this program will help develop collaborations with new professors and encourage the formation of long-term relationships.

Awards are disbursed as unrestricted gifts to the university and are not intended for overhead or indirect costs. They are intended for use during the academic year in which the award is provided to support the professor’s research efforts.

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