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Devaki Nambiar: International Women's Day 2019 Profile

06/03/2019

With close to 20 years’ experience as a social scientist and a decade as a researcher in numerous countries, Devaki Nambiar joined The George Institute for Global Health a year ago to focus on health system reform and social exclusion in health.

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Robyn Norton: International Women's Day 2019 Profile

05/03/2019
Robyn Norton IWD

Robyn Norton began conducting research on how best to prevent and manage injuries 30 years ago. Her passion and dedication to improving the health of communities globally led her to establish The George Institute for Global Health 20 years ago.

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The George Institute to provide technical assistance to Kidney Research Innovation Patient Assistance Centre set up by Andhra Pradesh Government at Palasa

Media release: 
01/03/2019
KRIPA centre CKDu

With a view to providing better treatment and service to persons living with chronic kidney disease, the Andhra Pradesh Government with technical support from the George Institute for Global Health, India has established a Kidney Research Innovation and Patient Assistance Centre (KRIPA) at Palasa, Srikakulam District.

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Thumbs up for India’s frontline health care workers at International Digital Health Symposium 2019

Media release: 
28/02/2019
Smart ASHAs IDHS 2019

The role of frontline health care workers in providing last mile delivery to the doorstep of people in rural areas of the country received a roaring thumbs up in the Capital on Wednesday as some of the delegates to the International Digital Health Symposium 2019 met and interacted with four of these “doctor sahibas” from the community who are screening people in their villages for non-communicable disease risk.

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NCD Alliance partners with The George Institute for Global Health

27/02/2019
NCD Alliance George Institute Partnership

The George Institute for Global Health is pleased to announce the launch of a new partnership with the NCD Alliance (NCDA). The partnership will foster dialogue and dissemination of research on evidence-based policy interventions to address noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and promote knowledge sharing within the global health community.

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Meet Amritendu Bhattacharya, our Lead Biostatician

12/02/2019
Amritendu

Amritendu Bhattacharya is the Lead Biostatician at The George Institute for Global Health, India. He has done his Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB)  Bangalore and MSc in Medical Statistics from Brookes University.

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Renal Services in South Asia woefully inadequate

22/01/2019
kidney treatment in south asia

Renal services in South Asia are characterized by increasing disease burden and a rapidly growing demand for service and research in the face of inadequate financial and manpower capacity. As a result, people mostly the poor suffering from kidney disease are not getting adequate treatment facilities in these countries.

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Call for Abstracts - National Symposium on Evidence Synthesis for Medicine, Public Health and Social Development

Event
abstract submission
Sunday, 20 January, 2019 (All day) to Thursday, 28 February, 2019 (All day)

New Delhi, India

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Medhavi Gupta: drowning prevention in Bangladesh

11/12/2018

Medhavi Gupta is a PhD student, currently undertaking her research at The George Institute for Global Health, Injury division. Her research focus is on drowning prevention, in particular, the development and evaluation of drowning reduction programs in Bangladesh and India.

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India urged to bridge the gap between evidence and policy in tackling women’s cancers

Media release: 
10/12/2018

Underscoring the urgent need for countries like India to put women’s cancers on the map of the public health agenda, the Vice-Chancellor of UNSW Sydney, Prof Ian Jacobs today said India can benefit immensely from the global experience on screening and prevention in the area of ovarian and cervical cancers.

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