SMAART Lab Updates

May 22-23, 2024 – “Had an opportunity to meet with the faculty of the Community Medicine Department of the Government Doon Medical College to discuss possible areas of research and student engagement in public health research,” says Dr. Ashish Joshi.

May 22-23, 2024 – Ashish Joshi’s visit to Government Doon Medical College, Dehradun, UK, India

May 21, 2024 – Inaugural REAIM Public Health Club was established at the SDRV Convent School with an aim to address behavioral health and well-being of young children. The club will have a rigorous curriculum around public health in action so that children can learn to cope, adapt, be resilient and empathetic in a complex uncertain environment so that they can be lifelong learners and acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to have a greater well-being in their life.

Dr. Ashish Joshi talking with a SDRVCS student

May 20, 2024 – It was a great opportunity to meet with the President DAV College Managing Committee Punam Suri, other office bearers and the Vice Chancellor DAV University Dr. Manoj Kumar to discuss areas of collaboration in areas of public health, population health informatics and other programs in collaboration with University of Memphis.

Dr. Ashish Joshi with the President DAV College Managing Committee Punam Suri and the Vice Chancellor DAV University Dr. Manoj Kumar
Jalandhar, Punjab, India | May 20, 2024

May 18, 2024 – “It was an excellent visit to KLE University with the Vice Chancellor Dr. Nitin M. Gangane, Dr. Mubashir Angolkar, Director Department of Public Health and Dr. Deepa Nair, Director of a newly established Center for Digital Health,” says Dr. Ashish Joshi.

Dr. Ashish Joshi visits with Dr. Nitin M. Gangane, Dr. Mubashir Angolkar, Dr. Deepa Nair and team at KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India | May 18, 2024

It was truly exciting to see the development of the First Regional Population Health Informatics Hub at the BRAC School of Public Health. The meeting was held in Dhaka on March1 and 2, 2023, with representation of esteemed colleagues from countries including Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Singapore and Malaysia. It was also a great occasion to see the first cohort of students graduate from the first batch of executive program in population health informatics.

Dr. Ashish Joshi has been invited to be a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on “Interventions to Address COVID-19-Related Stress, Misinformation, and Vaccine Uptake” in the Vaccine Journal.

Ashish Joshi joins as Associate Editor for the Population Health Section of the Journal Experimental Biology and Medicine.

Through this grant, Professor Ashish Joshi and colleagues will develop an innovative, first-of-its-kind, Regional Population Health Informatics Education Hub to prepare the public health workforce with skills essential to address the complex public health challenges of the 21st century.

Dr. Ashish Joshi has been invited to be a Guest Editor for a Special Issue “The Impact of Technology on Population Health” of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.