Public Health
A Global Perspective of One Health Approach: CHEE Yoke Ling
COVID-19 has exposed the fault lines in the administration of public health system in different nations and their disparate responses… Read More
One Health Approach to COVID-19: Towards Long-term Resilience
There is no sign of flattening of curve of COVID-19 despite the end of lockdown 4.0 on 31 May 2020.… Read More
Will Future COVID-19 Vaccine be a Global Public Good? World Health Assembly Shies Away
The 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA73), in its two-day virtual session, hosted from Geneva, was fully devoted to discussions on… Read More
Public Health Systems are Not Machines to Make Money: Address WHO’s Structural Flaws
The inefficiencies in dealing with COVID-19 crisis are due to governments, which have failed to invest in the national public… Read More
COVID-19: An Opportunity to Fix Dysfunctional Biomedical R&D System
As we eagerly await a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), we are reminded of 2003 SARS and… Read More
Workshop to Upskill COVID testing facilities
Department of Biotechnology’s Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) is holding a workshop to bring frontline workers, especially scientists, clinicians… Read More
Indian researchers to work for COVID-19 vaccine
The swell of novel coronavirus appears not abating. In just a few months from the outbreak, it has reached around… Read More
Nurses are Frontline Fighters Against COVID-19, But Facing Poor Working Conditions
Those were emotional moments when the entire nation felicitated our medical professionals in gratitude, through clapping, beating drums and Thalis,… Read More
Gilead to Donate More than Million Doses of its Experimental Anti-Coronavirus Drug
Global pharma major Gilead is to donate 1.5 million doses of its experimental anti-coronavirus drug remdesivir, which could treat 140,000… Read More
COVID-19 in India: Immense Role for HealthCare Field Workers
On 30 March 2020, Prime Minister Modi met social welfare organizations and highlighted three distinct characteristics they have: ‘humane approach,… Read More