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Chhavi Bhandari
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Chhavi leads the Impact & Engagement programme of work in India with activities including advocacy, policy engagement and community engagement to help increase the impact of the institute’s health and medical research.
She is an MBA with multi-disciplinary experience in the healthcare sector. She has worked with national and state governments, hospitals, NGOs, universities, pharmaceuticals, medical-technology, multilateral organisations and insurance companies, globally, as part of her consulting and management roles in India, Australia and the UK.
Inika Sharma
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Inika Sharma is a research assistant working at the Meta Research and Evidence Synthesis Unit. Inika has a background in Psychology, having received her MSc in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology from King’s College London. Prior to that, she completed her undergraduate in Psychology (BA Hons) from the UC Berkeley. She has varied previous research experience, primarily in the fields of mental health and child development. Her research interests include effective and accessible interventions for mental illness that can be feasibly administered in LMIC (Low- and Middle-Income Country) settings. She has previously worked as a researcher at IIM Bangalore.
COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist For Rural Primary Health Care & Community Settings
Policy & Practice Report
EnSWIn: Environmental Support for Walking In India (pilot)
This study includes primary and secondary data collection, and uses surveys, photographs, and in-depth exploration of the perspectives of a subset of selected respondents. The findings will shed light on the association between built environment and physical activity in a wide range of adults living in different zones of the 2 study sites.
Perspectives, practices, and environmental footprints related to menstrual hygiene among girls and women in India – a pilot study [PEnMen-pilot]
Background:
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) is a generally under-researched area in India, although vital to the promotion of women’s health. Although there has been, particularly in recent years, some attention given to the provision of affordable menstrual absorbents, practices of treatment and disposal of the used absorbents have not received adequate attention from policymakers, and implementers, and pose ever-growing challenges to environmental sustainability and the personal health, well-being, and functioning of girls and women, with implications for the accomplishment of several SDGs.
Aim:
(i) to understand community perspectives, preferences and behavioural control related to treatment and disposal of menstrual absorbents, and the associations that women and girls make between menstrual hygiene practices and personal and environmental health; and
(ii) to estimate the environmental footprints of the menstrual hygiene management practices that come up in the data-collection
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COVID-19 Preparedness Checklists for Urban Primary Health Care & Community settings
Policy & Practice Report
Self-management and action plans for preventing acute exacerbations due to COPD: evidence summary
Policy & Practice Report
Beta-lactam antibiotics infusion group study - BLING III
Background:
Beta-lactam antibiotics are commonly used to treat life-threatening infections in critically ill patients. As a class of antibiotics, beta-lactams are known as time-dependent antibiotics because they have their greatest effect when the antibiotic concentration in the blood remains above a critical level (dependent on the organism) for the duration of the course.
Continuous infusion of beta-lactams has been shown to more consistently achieve these time-dependent pharmacodynamic endpoints than the standard practice of bolus dosing. However, the relatively small randomised controlled trials to date have not reported improved clinical outcomes, such as resolution of infection or lower mortality, with the use of continuous infusion
A prospective, multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy, phase II RCT (BLING II) was conducted in 25 ICUs in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. While there was no significant difference in the primary endpoint, it found an absolute difference in hospital mortality