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New zealand and India health

NZ and India health issues

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New zealand and India health

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  1. Our response, their needs The tale of the kiwi and elephant Arin Basu Health Sciences Centre arindam.basu@canterbury.ac.nz

  2. What this talk is about There are several overlapping opportunities and areas of mutual interest between NZ and India in healthcare. Let’s focus on addressing one of them: training epidemiologists in India with our skills, and solving epidemiological problems

  3. What’s covered in this talk • Some notes about India and commonalities that tie India and the NZ, why collaborate at all • Some introduction to emergent issues in India • Suggestions where UC comes in the picture • Tell what has already been done • Outline available opportunities and challenges

  4. About India • 1.2 Billion people • 750 million people with at least one cellphone, about 500 million with inadequate access to modern toilet facilities • Over 50 entries in Forbes’ list of richest, yet nearly 40% children below 6 years undernourished • You can tell from this information that …

  5. Environment and health issues … • 1984, the world’s largest industrial disaster happens in Bhopal, Union Carbide, thousands dead, years of suffering … • 1989, the largest post world war II calamity in the history of mankind – Arsenic toxicity, nearly 140 million affected in Ganges delta • Yet to unfold, 750 milion people with access to cellphones, AND also to cell towers and microwave radiation …

  6. Opportunities of engagement • Inadequate public health workforce • Exodus of health care workforce • International community chipping in • PAPA project to study air pollution • WHO conducts training programmes for TB • US consortium setting up PHFI in 2007 • Can we in NZ do something?

  7. Role of UC Academia • HSC with UC is about health care research and education • Public health research and education strength • We have access to best knowledge base that we can share • In NZ, we can tap into the best expertise • NZSAC and THIS, can provide a scaffold • We now have the need and the structure

  8. Existing groundwork • The Fogarty Experience • Personal level connection between All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health Epidemiologists • Researched and published Environmental epidemiological studies on Indian issues • Continue to receive requests for help • NZSAC and THIS initiative strong point

  9. Scope: Immediate opportunities • Request for conducting review and research on Mercury poisoning and call for collaborative Epidemiological Research • Discussion initiated with the Epidemiologists at the AIIHPH to develop close collaborations

  10. What’s in it for UC • International reputation, chance to showcase NZ innovative research in a Europe/US-centric environment • More inflow of students • Collaborative projects and research funds • Scholar Exchanges expanded sphere of academic influence • Travel, Interaction, recognition, publication

  11. Challenges • Identification of specific funding streams • Institutional arrangements as to how these can be organized • Channelling of expertise and funds • Cultural issues around proposal developments • Need for dedicated time

  12. Next steps • Work on the existing proposals • Involve the larger UC community • Create a common platform where we forge partnerships at various levels, both institutional as well as larger societal levels • Scholar Exchange Programmes

  13. My exploratory wiki http://nzcollab.wikispaces.com/

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