Health Technologies Analyst
Gurjant takes care of the software development and innovation of the research based platforms that address the public health challenges. He has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and engineering from Punjab Technical University and has established OXO Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2008. In his free time, he likes to mentor people, do photography and travel.
Professor of Health Informatics
Full professor of Health Informatics at the Medical Sciences Center and professor of the Medical Course at UFPE. Founder and coordinator of the Health Information Technology Research Group (TIS) and the Telehealth Center (NUTES) at UFPE – Hospital das Clínicas eHealth Unit. Practice areas: health information and communication technologies, clinical informatics, public health informatics, mobile health (mHealth), medical education informatics. Coordinates and develops projects with an emphasis on telehealth in primary care and mental health. Voted the most influential person in digital health in Latin America by the HealthXL Awards in 2014, thanks to her work as coordinator of the Center for Telehealth (NUTES), and elected one of the 100 most influential people in health during the Hospital Fair in 2015.
Distinguished Professor and an Executive Director
Dr. Nash is an epidemiologist with over 20 years of experience and leadership in conducting epidemiologic studies. His central interests include infectious diseases, the field of public health surveillance and the use of public health surveillance data to conduct rigorous assessments of programmatic effectiveness and the impact of policies on health. He has worked extensively in domestic and international settings conducting large-scale, ‘real-world’ epidemiologic studies examining key outcomes among persons with HIV infection. Dr. Nash is the Distinguished Professor and an Executive Director, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.
Lead Investigator
Dr. Joshi is Dean and a Distinguished University Professor of the School of Public Health, University of Memphis, TN, USA. Dr. Joshi is an innovator, entrepreneur, educator, researcher, administrator, and mentor. He is an established population health informatics researcher who combines his academic training in clinical medicine, public health, and informatics to design and develop human-centered, technology-enabled interventions to enhance population health outcomes across diverse community settings. He has extensive experience in utilizing community and hospital-based data to implement and evaluate informatics-enabled solutions to address social, economic, and health inequities of the 21st century. He combines data-driven innovative entrepreneurial creative approaches to advance excellence in public health education, and research, that can address public health challenges in the community by preparing the next generation of public health leaders.
Despite his administrative role, continues scholarly and research contributions toward improving the good health and well-being of individuals, families, and the communities they live in. Dr. Joshi conceptualized the SMAART (Sustainable, Multisector, Accessible, Affordable, Reimbursable, and Tailored) model using combined principles of the human-centered approach, humanistic, behavioral, learning, and information processing theory to advance the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. He has designed and developed, standalone and internet-enabled, multi-lingual, digital health interventions such as population health dashboards, consumer health informatics, m-health interventions, and population-based surveillance tools across multiple settings to improve population health outcomes. Dr. Joshi successfully completed more than two dozen research projects in the areas of population health informatics across multiple countries including the US, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Haiti, Egypt, and Brazil. These projects were funded by several Federal, State, and International government agencies and other private foundations. Dr. Joshi also launched the first of its kind fully online Certificate and MS Population Health Informatics Programs. He was awarded by the Open Society Institute to establish the Regional Population Health Informatics Education Hub to prepare the public health workforce with skills in population health informatics and how community data can be utilized to design human-centered interventions for the improvement of population health outcomes. The hub is established at BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health with an aim to create a regional network of experts in the population health informatics field ready to respond as a team to the next public health challenge.
Dr. Joshi was a founding member of the CUNY SPH and has made a significant contribution to advancing the CUNY SPH by providing leadership for the planning and implementation of all components of the academic programs including curriculum implementation, new academic programs, and 4+1 pipeline initiatives, online instruction, accreditation, career and experiential learning, and student and faculty affairs, and Human Research Protection Office. Dr. Joshi implemented technology-enabled data-driven informed decision-making to bring more transparency and equity across various academic and administrative units. Dr. Joshi was presented with the inaugural CUNY SPH Legacy Award for his crucial role in the establishment of CUNY SPH as an independent graduate school within the CUNY system. Dr. Joshi has been leading CUNY SPH efforts to implement the NYC Resource Navigator Test and Trace Program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and secured an award of a $10 million contract with the Housing Recovery Operations of the Mayor’s Office to implement the aftercare resource navigator program to address COVID-19 recovery efforts. Dr. Joshi was presented with the Distinguished Service Award by the NYC Test and Trace Corps program for his extraordinary dedication and contributions to reversing the COVID-19 outbreak and protecting and promoting the safety and well-being of New York residents.
He has developed SMAART public health intervention incubator in India and expanded it across several states in India with an aim to bring public health research into action through multisector partnerships, data-driven interventions, Innovations, skill-based training, and innovative and sustainable community programs, that address health inequities. He was invited to present the SMAART model at the WHO, United Nations, and several other agencies nationally and globally.
Currently, he is the Chair of the Global Health Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also an author of the first textbook published on Population Health Informatics: Driving Evidence-based solutions into practice published by Jones Bartlett.
He is primary author of the first recently published text book on “Population Health Informatics: Driving evidence based solutions into practice”.
Research Interests
- Population Health Informatics
- Mobile Health
- Public Health Dashboards
- Public Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Public Health Workforce
- Global Health
- Human-Centered Design
Selected Publications
- Joshi A, Gertner R, Roberts L and Mohandes El Ayman. An Evidence-based approach of Academic Management in a School of Public Health using SMAART Model. Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 12256
- Tan YR, Agrawal A, Matsoso MP, Katz R, Davis SLM, Winkler AS, Huber A, Joshi A, El-Mohandes A, Mellado B, Mubaira CA, Canlas FC, Asiki G, Khosa H, Lazarus JV, Choisy M, Recamonde-Mendoza M, Keiser O, Okwen P, English R, Stinckwich S, Kiwuwa-Muyingo S, Kutadza T, Sethi T, Mathaha T, Nguyen VK, Gill A, Yap P. A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: beyond data collection. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Jun;7(6): e009389. PMID: 35760438; PMCID: PMC9237878.
- Joshi A, Kaur M, Kaur R, Grover A, Nash D, El-Mohandes A. Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance, Intention, and Hesitancy: A Scoping Review. Front Public Health. 2021 Aug 13; 9:698111.
- Joshi, A .Bruce, Amadi, C, Amatya, J. (2021) & I. Developing Evidence-based population health informatics curriculum: Integrating competency based model and job analysis. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 13 (1)
- Joshi A*, Gaba A, Thakur S, Grover A. Need and Importance of Nutrition Informatics in India: A Perspective. Nutrients. 2021;
- Joshi, A*. Kaur, H., Krishna, L. N., Sharma, S., Sharda, G., Lohra, G., Bhatt, A., & Grover, A. (2021). Tracking COVID-19 burden in India using SMAART RAPID tracker. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 13(1).
- Joshi, A., Kajal, F., Bhuyan, S. S., Sharma, P., Bhatt, A., Kumar, K., Kaur, M., & Arora, A. (2020). Quality of Novel Coronavirus Related Health Information over the Internet: An Evaluation Study. The Scientific World Journal, 2020, 1562028. PMCID: PMC7411495
- Goyal, A., Grover, A., Gauba, K., Gupta, A., Mehta, N., Dutta, S., Pandey, R. M., Joshi A*, Malhotra B, Amadi-Mgbenka C, et al. Gender and the Digital Divide Across Urban Slums of New Delhi, India: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Med Internet Res. 2020 Jun; 22(6): e14714. PMCID: PMC7338923
- Babu BV, John KR, Manickam P, Kishore J, Singh R, Mangal DK, Joshi A, Bairwa M, Sharma Y. Development and Implementation of Integrated Road Traffic Injuries Surveillance – India (IRIS-India): A Protocol. Adv J Emerg Med. 2019 Dec 15; 4(2):e35.
- Joshi A, Chioma Amadi, Amina Alam, Margaret A Krudysz, Gabriela Hernandez Using data to inform decision making in recruitment of prospective Public Health students. Research in Higher Education, Vol 32 (1-18) 2017
- Joshi A, Amadi C, Meza J, Aguire T, Wilhelm S. Evaluation of a computer-based bilingual breastfeeding educational program on breastfeeding knowledge, self-efficacy and intent to breastfeed among rural Hispanic women. Int J Med Inform. 2016 Jul;91:10-9
- Joshi A and Chioma Amadi. Assessment of CEPH-Accredited Institutions Offering Public Health Programs in the United States: A Short Report Front Public Health. 2016 Jan 27; 3:290. PMID: 26858945
- Joshi A, Chioma Amadi, Attiqa Mirza and Kim McFarlane. Assessment of Public Health Jobs over the Internet: Perspect Public Health. 2016 Feb 9. DOI: 10.1177/1757913915626946
Health Technology Researcher
I have a keen interest in technology when it comes to health. I, a freelancer in the world of web projects, mom of two, believe in always doing productive work, and always being free for family.
Public Health Researcher
Committed Public Health Researcher and PhD research scholar with specialisation in Public Health (Health Policy and Leadership) from Parul Institute of Public Health, Parul University in collaboration with Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society, with extensive experience in research, academics, community settings, healthcare settings, and so on. She specialises in public health, climate change, health policy, data analysis, and data visualisation, among many others.
She is a Visiting faculty for various collaborating programs of FHTS at Parul University and Panimalar medical college and research Institute, St. Annes college and Dental college. She firmly believes in the power of research-based decision making. Being a Public Health Professional she wants to help individuals in improving their perspective towards health. Her vision is to employ a digital infrastructure for understanding the problems of public health and chart out prospective solutions using tools of big data, information aggregation and visual analytic.
At FHTS, she is involved in a variety of initiatives and projects where she has learned about how technology-based solutions can empower individuals for their overall well-being. She also helps to curate academic modules on operational research, population health informatics, nutrition informatics, and public health. FHTS has helped her improve her analytical, operational, management, mentoring, team building, leadership, research, and communication skills since last three years. She further aspires to advance the FHTS vision of improving population health outcomes through innovative, informatics, and evidence-based practices.
Core area of interest: Climate Change, Data Policy, Analytical Sciences, Population Health Informatics, Public Health, Gender Equity.
Community Initiative Coordinator
Mansi has been working in the development sector since 2010. After completing her Bachelors in Physiotherapy, she started her career working for underserved communities with the added burden of their child’s disability. She simultaneously completed her higher education in MSW and PGDHA and moved on to working with Global Cancer Concern India and St Jude’s India Childcare Centers for Cancer patients as a Program Manager and Cluster Manager respectively. She got to work with Oncology and Palliative care units of various private and government Hospitals and worked closely with the Pediatric cancer care unit of AIIMS and Tata Memorial Hospital. She worked for promoting cancer awareness, palliative care and cancer screening at grassroot level. She contributed to the establishment of a Palliative Care Center in Delhi and was a lead member for setting up Residential care centers for children suffering from cancer. She has also completed a Diploma in Epidemiology from National Institute of Health and Family Welfare and Certificate in NGO management from YMCA. She served as an academic counselor for 8 years with IGNOU for BSW and MSW courses. She developed the training modules for Geriatric Caregiver course offered by NGO Anugraha in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. She also prepared the Course Content for Certificate in NGO management offered by Manovikas Community College affiliated to IGNOU.
Her association with FHTS started in 2015 and she joined as a team member in 2016. In these 7 years she has got an opportunity to work in a wide spectrum of activities like project and program management, institutional collaboration, stakeholder engagement , outreach initiatives for the communities, student centered activities, content curation and development, dissemination, grant writing and working on various research projects. FHTS in its journey towards its vision offers a lot in different forms to everyone. Experience the bliss of making your contribution by joining hands with FHTS where the strength of the actions towards the health and well being of all is based on values and principles. She extends her heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Ashish Joshi and FHTS for creating such a platform and aims to contribute to the best of her potential.
Research Program Manager
Bhavya is the Research Program Manager at FHTS. She is coordinating Research Project funded by ICMR involving integration of information technology with nutritional information to improve public health outcomes. Born in Meerut and a graduate from Lady Irwin College, Delhi and a Post graduate from M.S University, Baroda. Her previous assignments include the projects with SEWA Rural, Jhagadia, Deepak Foundation, Gujarat. She has also worked with other NGO’s and hospitals. Being a Public Health Professional She has exposure of tribal, rural and urban slums studies. She is a certified Lactation Counselor.
As a PhD Fellow – I aspire for PhD with a clear intention, to improve population health standards in my country and across the globe. My experience while working with a Research Organisation, there has been many instances wherein I have observed malnutrition in kids, lacuna in basic facilities like safe drinking water, menstrual hygiene which I staunchly believe should be controlled.
Future of India and Developing countries holds a lot of potential in Population health Informatics, my plans are to see a better status quo in standards of hygiene, nutrition, education, well-being, gender equality, etc. In developing countries, not only by reaching out to local/Global stakeholders and working closely by using Data enriched analysis to prove that quality of life/ value of human life can be taken care within the Grant’s that are budget for a cause just by efficiently using it.
I strive to be worthy of a title through this doctoral program wherein I can use latest technology around me to control and overcome these lags of our society.