Where we work

Project details coming soon.

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.

Individuals trained will use principles of population health informatics to design, develop, implement, and evaluate human centered technology enabled interventions and innovations using community data at grassroots level to guide informed decision-making.

• To assess physical and mental state of well-being among individuals living in urban slum settings
• Burden of well-being in urban slums
• Cross sectional study

• Design and development of a SMAART well-being dashboard to visualize spatial and temporal patterns of well-being across New York City
• Interactive dashboard to assess well-being in NY City
• Human centered approach to develop an interactive internet enabled SMAART Well-being Dashboard

• Enhancement of KAP regarding oral health of 0-6 year old children among AW and mothers attending AC in rural parts of Chandigarh and Cuttack, Orissa.
• SMS messages for prevention of oral diseases to mothers of children during their routine visits to anganwadi centres
• Lower Dental caries levels among 0-6 year old children
• Randomized controlled clinical trial

• To assess dimensions of women empowerment in urban slum settings
• Design and develop interventions that can enhance women empowerment living in urban slum settings
• Assessing women empowerment in urban slums
• Cross sectional study

• To understand routing activities of children age 3-6 years in the Anganwadi centers in urban slum settings
• Design and develop interventions that can enhance engagement of children coming to anganwadi centers living in urban slum settings
• Activities that can enhance engagement of children in Anganwadi centers
• Cross sectional study

• To study burden of road traffic accidents and its epidemiological factors
• Design, develop, implement and evaluate internet enabled Integrated Road Traffic Injuries surveillance using SMAART framework
• Implementation of an internet enabled integrated road traffic injury surveillance platform across multiple states In India
• Randomized controlled trial

• RISE – Research Innovation Sustainability and Employability Initiative to address SDG8 decent work and economic growth: A case study
• Provide a platform to urban slum women and school drop out girls to leverage their creativity to learn the importance of research and its utility in creating consumer centric products
• Enhance well being of individuals and create sustained employment
• Case study

• Usefulness and effectiveness of a telephone based system to support dietary self-management among diabetic patients in urban and rural settings
• Enhance diet related Knowledge, attitudes and practice among diabetic patients
• Randomized controlled clinical trial

• Design, develop and implement an internet enabled platform to track SDG indicators in diverse community settings
• Assess programs policies aligned to different SDGs
• Health technology implementation

• Explore social, economic, behavioural and neighbourhood factors influencing sustainable development goals
• Implementation of an interactive SMAART SDG dashboard to show community perceptions towards achieving SDGs
• Identify multiple risk factors of stress and food insecurity in urban slum settings
• Cross sectional study

• Examine the impact of social determinant of health on the burden of food insecurity among individuals living in urban slum settings
• Identify predictors of food insecurity in urban slums
• Cross sectional study

• Examine the impact of social determinant of health on the burden of stress among individuals living in urban slum settings
• Identify intervention components that can be facilitated through technology to enhance self-management of stress
• Identify predictors of stress in urban slums
• Cross sectional study

• Hypertension prevalence and risk factors among residents of four slum communities
• Mobile based surveillance of Non-communicable diseases in slums in Haiti.
• Hypertension prevalence was high across the age spectrum
• Cross sectional study

• Design, develop and implementation of healthy CUNY app
• Mobile app to support student success
• Reduce food insecurity and hunger
• Assist students experiencing problems like depression, anxiety and stress to get appropriate help
• Facilitate enrollment in health insurance
• Increase access to reproductive and sexual health services
• Feasibility and Acceptance

• Design and develop internet enabled visualization platform to track, monitor HIV related programs and policies in the State of New York
• Implementation of an internet enabled visualization platform to track, monitor HIV related programs and policies in the State of New York
• Track HIV programs and policies in the state of New York
• Health technology implementation

• Host a cohort of Egyptian public health scholars through the Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program and is and the people of other countries
• Training grant
• Primarily designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries
• Mentorship

• Efficacy of school-based surveillance was evaluated for detection of acute pharyngitis and RF/RHD in Shimla district, HP.
• Mobile app, SMS and internet enabled platform to detect early symptoms of RF/RHD among children by nodal teachers, parents and teachers
• School based surveillance had higher rate of suspecting children with acute pharyngitis and or RF/RHD
• Randomized controlled clinical trial

• More info coming soon.

• Feasibility of podcast as an intervention to enhance diabetes related education
• Podcast as an Intervention
• Improvement in diabetes related knowledge, attitude and practices among Hispanic adults
• Pre-Post study

• To address population health challenges of the 21st century by enhancing academic and non-academic skills of students during their field practicum, research thesis or experiential learning
• Provide mentorship to students in research, innovation, sustainability and entrepreneurship to address population health challenges of the 21st century
• Develop knowledge and skills and competencies essential to design, develop, implement, and evaluate novel solutions that address community needs to enhance their well-being across diverse settings
• Internship/Experiential program

• Evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of aqua tower in schools in rural India
• Implementation of a aqua tower to improve water, sanitation and hygiene related knowledge, attitude and practices among school children and reduce school absenteeism and improve learning outcomes.
• School absenteeism, diarrheal episodes and learning outcomes
• Randomized Controlled Trial

• Examine usability of an interactive, bilingual touch screen computer-based educational program to promote breastfeeding practices among Hispanic women living in rural settings.
• Touch screen interactive, tailored, computer-based breastfeeding educational support program to educate
• Improvement in breastfeeding knowledge, self-efficacy and individuals’ intent to breastfeed
• Randomized controlled trial

• Mobile phone-based education and counseling to reduce stress among patients with diabetes mellitus attending a tertiary care hospital of India.
• Weekly SMS messages to help individuals self-manage their diabetes
• Reduction of stress among individuals with type 2 diabetes
• Pre-post study

• Usefulness and feasibility to enhance metabolic syndrome related Knowledge, attitudes and practice among urban and rural settings of Orissa, India
• Implementation of a standalone and an internet enabled, computer based, touch screen bi-lingual metabolic syndrome health information platform
• Enhance metabolic syndrome related Knowledge, attitudes and practice
• Methods: Randomized controlled trial

• Design and develop touchscreen standalone, bi-lingual Interactive Child Health Nutrition program
• Implement culturally relevant bi-lingual interactive child health nutrition program
• Enhance patient-physician coordination and giving opportunity to children
• Randomized controlled trial

• Evaluate the usability of a stand-alone, Internet-enabled interactive surveillance system designed to monitor the burden of invasive bacterial infections among children in Nigeria.
• Implementation of a surveillance system to monitor the burden of invasive bacterial infections among children in Nigeria
• Burden of invasive bacterial infections among children in Nigeria
• Epidemiological study

• Mobile phone-based education and counseling to reduce stress among patients with diabetes mellitus attending a tertiary care hospital of India.
• Weekly SMS messages to help individuals self-manage their diabetes
• Reduction of stress among individuals with type 2 diabetes
• Pre-Post study

• Design, develop and implement an internet enabled platform to track children with special care needs
• Implement internet enabled SMAART informatics platform to enhance coordination among diverse stakeholders
• Track the progress of children with special healthcare needs
• Health technology implementation

• Summarizing research findings on the cardiovascular outcomes in several European countries
• Summarized report
• Systematic review

• Enhance self-management of individuals at risk of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and high cholesterol
• Decision support tool to support self-management of metabolic syndrome
• Screen individuals about their knowledge, attitude and practices related to self-management of metabolic syndrome
• Health technology implementation

• Facilitate self-management of patients with NCDs
• Decision support tool to support self-management of Non-communicable diseases
• Feasibility and acceptance of MyPSTlog.com
• Health technology implementation

• Home based anticoagulant self-testing in primary care setting
• Home based anti-coagulant self-testing in primary care
• Enhance self-testing
• Cross sectional study

• Evaluate tele-education programs among healthcare professionals within federal university of Pernambuco, Recipe.
• Implement an internet enabled geovisualization platform to conceptualize public health data.
• Health technology implementation

• Explore possible barriers to immunization coverage
• Barriers to immunization coverage in the state of Orissa.
• Secondary data analysis

• Design and implement bi-lingual, internet enabled, interactive platform to educate healthcare professionals about dengue and track their knowledge in the State of Orissa
• Internet enabled platform to educate, track and evaluate dengue related knowledge among healthcare professionals in the state of Orissa
• Enhance dengue related knowledge, attitude and practices among healthcare professionals of the state
• Cross sectional study

• Evaluating the impact of patient education and motivation tool to enhance multiple sclerosis related education among nurses in the VA hospitals
• An interactive internet enabled platform to deliver, relevant Multiple Sclerosis education for nurses in the VA hospitals
• Enhance nurses MS related knowledge to facilitate better management of veterans with MS across VA hospitals.
• Pre-Post study

• National Implementation to evaluate impact of patient education and motivation tool to enhance multiple myeloma related education among veterans in the VA hospitals
• An interactive internet and touch screen enabled platform to deliver, relevant Multiple myeloma education among veterans in the VA hospitals
• Enhance multiple myeloma related knowledge of veterans with multiple myeloma across VA hospitals.
• Pre-Post study

• Evaluating the impact of patient education and motivation tool to enhance influenza vaccination rates among children
• Touch screen standalone kiosk to deliver interactive, culturally and contextually relevant influenza education
• Enhance KAP related to influenza vaccine
• Pre-Post study

• Examine feasibility and usefulness of an interactive touch screen computer enabled kiosk to educate children and families about asthma visiting the emergency room
• Implementation of an interactive touch screen computer enabled asthma kiosk in an emergency room setting
• Enhance knowledge, attitudes and practices related to 123’s of Asthma
• Pre-Post study