FEBRUARY 15, 2022
MEET OUR EXPERTS
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Assistant Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research Subcommittee Co-Lead, Johns Hopkins India Institute
Research Director of Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative (JHU-GmI)
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Dr. Agarwal studies how to improve maternal and newborn health in low-income settings through strengthening community health systems and leveraging innovative technological solutions including digital devices.
Over the last decade, she has supported the development of programs that employ digital tools such as mobile phones to improve health care services for women and children. This has included the development of point-of-care digital clinical decision support tools used by community health workers and other health care providers, and patient-focused SMS-based health behavior change interventions, and conversational agents (“chatbots”) that use natural language processing to communicate with users.
She has also developed methods for evaluating such digital programs and led a series of systematic Cochrane reviews on the effectiveness of digital clinical decision support tools and longitudinal health records that have been leveraged by the WHO to develop global guidelines on the use of digital tools to strengthen health services. She continues to work with bilateral and multilateral agencies to support development and implementation of routine digital health information systems.
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Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health
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As a health economist, Dr. Rao's research interests are in primary health care, health systems, human resources for health, and health care financing.
He is interested in examining different models of primary health care delivery that can provide comprehensive, affordable and affordable health care to populations.
He sees health care financing and human resources as having a critical role in this goal.
Dr. Rao is actively working on the Uttar Pradesh Health Systems Support Project (Gates Foundation).
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Indian Ambassador Visits JHU |
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It was our honor and pleasure to host his Excellency, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Indian Ambassador to the United States, and his delegation, including Dr. Dhanajay Tiwary (Head, Science & Technology Wing), Ms. Suja Menon (Head, Commerce Wing), and Mr. Stephen Mani (Ambassador’s Chief of Staff)on February 2, 2022. Their visit centered around discussions of mutual interest in healthcare, engineering and emerging technologies, energy, and education.
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Pictured left to right on the front row: Suja Menon, Ed Schlesinger (Benjamin T. Rome Dean and Professor, Whiting School of Engineering), Nancy Reynolds (Associate Dean of Global Health, School of Nursing), Sunil Kumar (Provost, Johns Hopkins University), Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Amita Gupta (Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Co-Chair of JHII), Christopher S. Celenza (James B. Knapp Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences)
Pictured left to right on the back row: Kunal Parikh (Research Associate Whiting School of Engineering), David Peters (Chair, Department of International Health, Co-Chair of JHII), Dhanjay Tiwary, Sanjay Jain (Pediatric Professor, School of Medicine), Sunil Solomon (Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases), and Mark Anderson (William Osler Professor of Medicine, Director, Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Physician-In-Chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital)
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We've launched our brand new website! Check out the new look and keep up with the latest from JHII.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine: February 3, 2022
JHII Faculty Co-chair Amita Gupta, M.D., M.H.S., an expert in the global treatment, prevention and control of diseases such as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB), has been named as the seventh director of Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases.
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JHII, SABIN Vaccine Institute; International Vaccine Access Center: February 17, 2022
Vaccines do not save lives; vaccination does. But what are the best message appeals to move people toward vaccine acceptance? In this free, interactive webinar, you will first learn about the findings from a literature review that examined message appeals and their effectiveness in nudging people toward vaccine acceptance. You will then see how various appeals were tested among individuals in India to see which appeals are most persuasive in vaccine decision-making.
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JHII; JHSAMSA, February 01, 2022
In case you missed it, the Johns Hopkins South Asian Medical Student Association (JHSAMSA) hosted their first panel on research and care delivery in South Asia as with JHII.
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Looking for Student Support? |
Johns Hopkins faculty who are seeking student support for India-related projects can now submit position descriptions. We will post them online and share in our email updates! |
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Deadline: TODAY, February 15, 2022
GHEFP is open to all full-time graduate students of the Johns Hopkins University who can work with their placement for a minimum of 8 weeks, and travel for a minimum of 6 consecutive weeks (if travel is available), and will return to complete their academic programs. Additional limitations may apply and are provided in the descriptions.
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School of Global Policy, University of California San Diego
Deadline for both: TODAY, February 15, 2022
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