A workshop on Public Health will be organised at the Indian Institute of Science. The dates will be announced later. The keynote address at the workshop will be delivered by Dr Sanghamitra Pati, director of the Regional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswar, on the topic ‘Catalysing Research for Public Health. Dr Prashant Mathur, director of National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, will speak on the topic ‘Non-communicable disease surveillance for India’.
Dr Sanghamitra Pati is a physician-turned-laboratory epidemiologist and public health researcher, currently working as the director of ICMR’s regional institute at Bhubaneswar. She has more than two decades of research experience in health care and public health, and has more than 300 scientific publications.
Dr Pati will start the talk with the concept and components of public health and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) followed by a description of the six building blocks of Health System and the relevance of each block. The talk will also focus on the role of research in improving health care and public health — with examples of ICMR and RMRC. The talk will conclude with how to create a cohesive research-policy-practice ecosystem in the country.
Dr Mathur is a member of 29 professional committees for policy making, development of infrastructure of cancer institutes all over India, workflows for HWCs under Ayushman Bharat, Implementation Research Project on improving NCD Continuum of Care etc. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the WHO-International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
The talk shall highlight NCD burden in India, public health approaches for NCD prevention and control, and the need for evidence for translation into health policy and programmes. The talk shall explain the evolution of NCD surveillance in India, the broad designs of data collation and disease burden estimation. Some ideas on NCDs and health informatics research will be discussed to map future scope of NCD surveillance.
The workshop is open to public.
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