communicable diseases

FILE PHOTO: Outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

Epidemics End. Eventually. Sort Of.

Kiran Kumbhar 31/10/2021

For millions of Indians, structural factors have given rise...

Coronavirus: Police personnel stop commuters

An Invisible Population in India’s Lockdown – Organ Failure Patients

Nishtha Mishra and M. Sivakami 31/03/2020

A lockdown to ostensibly protect against one disease cannot...

Fruit-bat

Rather Than Blaming Bats for Nipah Infection, We Should Improve Public Health

Haritha John and S. Gopikrishna Warrier 01/06/2018

As the southwest monsoon crosses the Kerala coast and...

Although India depends on data from sample surveys for tracking health parameters, there is a need to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems. Credit: cdcglobal/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why It’s a Challenge To Make Quick Sense of India’s Health Data

Oommen C. Kurian 11/01/2017

Even when several government departments and ministries collect data...