Public Health Needs Three-way Marriages

by Dr Anurag Agrawal (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi)

Wednesday 1 Apr 2015, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG - 66 (Lecture Theatre) (TIFR, Mumbai)

Public health and implementation research occupies an interdisciplinary space that lies between Medical, Biological, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences. Interdisciplinary marriages remain uncommon and multidisciplinary marriages even more so. I will discuss recent efforts where we used information technology, systems biology visualisation tools, and Bayesian frameworks to gain novel understanding of public health in India, while creating a framework for integrating transparent and effective healthcare delivery with big data collection for tomorrow's medicine