Podcasts about family welfare

We discuss the key recommendations of Baroness Louise Casey's report into child sexual exploitation and abuse, and ask what might change as a result? Nuala McGovern is joined by guests including BBC social affairs editor Alison Holt, social worker-turned-whistleblower Jayne Senior and documentary director Anna Hall, who has spent the past two decades covering the subject of grooming gangs. Comedian, actor and writer Rosie Jones joins Nuala to discuss her first sitcom, Pushers, which she stars in and co-wrote. She plays Emily in the Channel 4 show, who has very little left to lose after having her disability benefits cut when she loses her job - she finds herself building an illegal drugs empire. Emily isn't your average street-dealer though - she's sharp, funny, highly educated and has cerebral palsy. What better disguise could there be for criminal activity than to be entirely written off by society? Children are not playing outside enough, according to a new report by the Raising the Nation Play Commission, but instead are "sedentary, scrolling and alone". Nineteen commissioners, from doctors to campaigners, spent a year investigating play and childhood in England for the report. Among their recommendations are raising the digital age of consent to 16 and putting in place a statutory "play sufficiency duty" for local authorities. Joining Nuala to discuss this are Baroness Anne Longfield, executive chair of Centre for Young Lives and co-leader of the commission, and Debbie Watson, Professor of Child and Family Welfare at the University of Bristol. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths

News headlines // 7:15AM // Content warning: This segments contains references to violence, and suicide. For support contact 13YARN, that's 13 92 76 or Lifeline at 13 11 14. Jodie Bell, descendant of the Butchella and Jagera people of Southeast Queensland and board member of the Kimberley Aboriginal Women's Council, spoke to Phuong this week on Women on the Line. They speak about the organisation's comprehensive 2025-2027 strategic plan which was launched earlier this month at Federal Parliament House in Canberra. You can listen to the full conversation at 3cr.org.au/womenontheline  7:30AM // Deb Tsorbaris, CEO of the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare. Last Friday, 21 February was World Care Day, a day dedicated to amplifying the voices of children and young people currently in foster care or who have had foster care experience. Deb joins us to discuss healthcare needs for young people in out-of-home care.  7:45AM // This Saturday Annie from 3CR's Solidarity Breakfast spoke with Kerrie Byrne from Save Public Housing Collective. In this conversation, we get an update on SPHC's campaign against the Victorian Labor Government's plan to demolish 44 public housing towers, and some of the recent events in the Class Action against Homes Victoria, being spearheaded by Inner Melbourne Community Legal. You can listen back to Solidarity Breakfast at 3cr.org.au/solidaritybreakfast  8:00AM // Senator Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung mother, grandmother, and advocate for First Peoples, and Professor Chelsea Watego, Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman, speaking at Free Palestine Rally Naarm on 16 Feb. We take the opportunity to talk about Watego's book Another Day in the Colony (2021), and how knowledge is produced and censored. 8:15AM // Katharine Nikolic, a councillor for Delahey Ward in the City of Brimbank. Katharine was elected in 2024, and is Deputy Chair of Leadwest, an advocacy alliance comprising the western metropolitan municipalities of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton and Wyndham, and Co-chair of the Brimbank Youth Council. Katharine talks about a joint campaign amongst Brimbank's councillors to advocate for rail to Melbourne Airport before the construction of a third runway, which was announced last year. You can find more information here railbeforerunway.com.au  Songs:Better in Black - Thelma Plum Apa Guna Berjanji - Saloma

India reported 24 lakh TB cases last year, despite a government program launched in 2018 aiming to eliminate TB by 2025. This conversation examines critical advancements, including innovative diagnostics, improved treatment regimens, and public-private partnerships. Host Vikas Dandekar is joined by a distinguished panel comprising Dr. Urvashi Singh, Deputy Director General (TB) from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Dr. Randeep Guleria, Former Director of AIIMS and a public health advocate; Dr. Alpa Dalal, Head of Pulmonary Medicine at Jupiter Hospital and Honorary Chest Physician at Sewri TB Hospital, Mumbai; and Mr. Sriram Natarajan, Director and CEO of Molbio Diagnostics. Together, they address key challenges such as stigma, treatment adherence, and the role of nutrition in recovery. Learn how India is leveraging technology, community involvement, and government initiatives to tackle one of its most pressing public health challenges. What progress has been made, where do we stand, and what’s next in the fight against tuberculosis? Tune in to find out. Check out other interesting episodes from the host like: India’s Space Odyssey 2025, How will the H-1B furore pan out?, Building India’s $30 Trillion Future By 2047, Mint Street’s New Maestro, Explaining the Food Inflation Debate, India’s Big Dubai Probe and more! You can follow Anirban Chowdhury on his social media: Twitter and Linkedin Catch the latest episode of ‘The Morning Brief’ on ET Play, The Economic Times Online, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Amazon Music and Youtube.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode features a conversation that explores the intersectionality of race, careers in engineering and joy. These are big topics on their own and become highly amplified and sometimes harmful, when one's self-identities and protected characteristics intertwine.  Today, we're going to approach them with care and mindful intention as these are themes that we don't often get to share in this way. My name is Beatrice Udeh and I am the guest host for this Black History Month episode of Impulse to Innovation.   Beatrice Udeh is Head of Diversity at the Arts Marketing Association (AMA). She is an award-winning creative specialist, a theatre producer, broadcaster & poet, and has held positions at both the BBC and Arts Council England. She has a degree in mechanical engineering and was a mechanical design engineer for Rolls Royce.   So, why am I hosting and not Dr Helen Meese? Well, Helen approached me as she was keen for the IMechE to celebrate Black History Month, but wanted to make sure that somebody with lived-experience and a professional EDI background was at the helm to hold the space for the panel. I'm no stranger to the IMechE or to the microphone. I'm a former broadcast journalist and radio producer. I'm a former Mechanical Design Engineer and was an IMechE member nigh on 25 years ago, chairing the Young Members Panel for Derby and Nottingham in the East Midlands. I am joined on the episode by some amazing people who are leaders in their technical and engineering fields including start-ups, geeks, policymakers and just plain, smart engineers. I'm excited to get to the pulse of what makes them rock and find out how they roll during BHM and beyond.   I wanted to share a few things as provocations for this discussion, here are some interesting stats by the Association of Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK): “Currently, around 30% of the U.K.'s engineering university graduates are from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. However, these underrepresented groups account for only 9% of professional engineers. This is largely due to the barriers and challenges these groups face in recruitment, retention, and advancing professional development.” With my Diversity-lead hat on, three things stick out for me. One, there is the language - black and minority ethnic. Two, the stats (30% of University graduates vs 9% entering the sector) and three the business case for a thriving workforce: recruitment, retention and career advancement.   According to Engineering UK, Global Majority individuals in the UK engineering sector face several specific challenges. Research has been done to quantify this, with specific examples of inclusion of people and inclusivity written into processes and policies. Not being seen aka representation  Different types of bias such as the halo effect, or conformity bias and even attribution bias. All of these biases impact our behaviours and lead to discrimination even before reaching the workplace, let alone in the recruitment, onboarding and retention processes. The National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC), released a report this summer highlighting the importance of increasing representation in engineering and emphasising the need for a diverse and skilled workforce.  And with a reported 700,000 people contributing to the engineering economy and 'Statista Data' showing that there are 540,000 engineers working in the UK, what does this mean when we intersect this with Black-British history and Global Majority engineering futures?    This months guests are:   Swati Swati is a dedicated, award-winning Biomedical Engineer. Having moved from India  where she worked at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, she studied for her engineering degree before starting a new career as a Clinical Technologist at Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. With a passion for STEM education and Healthcare Swati has set up her own company and now provides a variety of leadership, technical and regulatory affairs courses for students at universities and healthcare related solutions to hospitals and healthcare industries.   Dr Nike Folayan MBE is a chartered engineer and Fellow of the IET. She holds a PhD in Electronics Engineering with referenced international research publications and citations. She sits on a number of advisory boards for various governmental and non-governmental organisations including the Royal Academy of Engineering, Transport for London and  the University of Kent Industrial Panel. Nike is recognised as one of the top 100 most influential women in engineering and recieved her MBE for services to diversity in engineering in 2020. Nike is co-founder and chairperson of AFBE-UK, a UK-wide organisation that promotes higher achievement in Engineering particularly for underrepresented groups in engineering. She is presently Technical Director at WSP UK.   Shefali Sharma is an Aeronautics & Space Engineer and Co-Founder & Director of Oxford Dynamics. Seconded to India on behalf of the UK space industry & the Dept. for International Trade in her early career, Shefali has gone on to become a leading Entrepreneur in the space sector creating OxLABS and Oxford Dynamics in less than five years. With multiple honours to her name, she is now focusing on cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence research for the space industry.     Dr Bridget Ogwezi is an award winning doctoral research engineer and civil engineering graduate. She is Senior Strategic Project Manager for Ansys UK. Bridget is passionate about the process of discovery in particular, how to harness human innovation, technology and the materials we build with to make buildings healthier and less damaging to the planet.     Maira Bana is a chartered mechanical engineer with expertise in analysing and resolving cooling and airflow challenges in the data centre industry, through thermal simulation. She manages the CFD Team at RED Engineering Design. Maira is an active IMechE volunteer and Co-Chairs the Construction & Building Services Division, she is also a past Trustee of the Institution. Presently she is a Trustee of SheCanEngineer.     Useful Links: Assoc. for Black & Minority Ethnic Engineers UK SheCanEngineer The Hamilton Commission Mission 44 IMechE DEI Information     We would love to hear your thoughts and comments on this episode. If you would like to get in touch, email us at podcast@imeche.org You can find more information about the work of the IMechE at www.imeche.org   

CrowdScience listener Azeddine from Algeria has had bad handwriting since he was a child. In fact, it was so untidy that, when he later became a chemistry lecturer, his university students complained that they couldn't read his lecture notes. That was when he decided he had to do something about it. And it got him wondering… why do some of us have very neat handwriting while other people's is almost unreadable? Why do his sisters all write beautifully when his natural style is quite the opposite? Presenter Alex Lathbridge – who admits that his handwriting isn't always the tidiest – sets out to answer Azeddine's question. He explores the different factors which determine how well we write. How much of it is inherited? What part does family and education play? And what's actually going on in our brains when we apply pen to paper? Alex talks to anthropologist Monika Saini in Delhi who has analysed writing styles within families and in different regions across India. She tells him about the genetic and cultural factors which seem to influence our handwriting. We also hear from neuroscientist Marieke Longcamp who uses MRI scanning to find out which parts of our brains are involved when we write by hand. She's looked at what's happening in the brains of people who write in more than one script – for example in French and Arabic, like Azeddine. Another neuroscientist, Karin Harman James, has been looking at the link between learning something by writing it down compared to typing it on a tablet or laptop. And Alex meets handwriting tutor Cherrell Avery to find out if it's possible to improve your writing – even as an adult. Contributors: Cherrell Avery, Handwriting Tutor, London, UK Dr. Monika Saini, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Delhi, India Prof. Karin Harman James, Indiana University, USA Prof. Marieke Longcamp, Aix Marseille Université, France Presenter: Alex Lathbridge Producer: Jeremy Grange Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano Studio Manager: Emma Harth

At least 33 people died in heatwave during the 2024 General Election's last phase in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha. The people who died include polling officials. The average heat related mortality has increased by 85% in 2013-22 as compared with 1991-2001. Excess heat can cause:  Cardiac related illness Lung damage Kidney injury Adverse pregnancy outcome  Mental health impact But often these deaths are not recorded as heat-related deaths or are not accepted by the respective governments or local bodies.  The National Action Plan on Heat Related Illnesses, 2021 gave detailed guidelines on how to record a suspected heat-related illness death. Recently, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released a document examining autopsy findings of those who died of heat-related illnesses. This is an attempt by the govt to standardise the approach of confirming such deaths.  We are replaying last year's episode. In this episode, Suno India's Sneha Richhariya visited a district hospital to understand the challenges of recording a heat-related death. I spoke to Dr. Abhishek Sharma, Emergency Medical Officer at Noida district hospital and Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).  References India heatwave kills at least 33, including election officials - The Economic Times National Action plan on Heat Related llnesses.pdf AUTOPSY FINDINGS HEAT RELATED DEATHS Cause certified in just 22.5% of deaths registered in 2020 | India NewsSee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

It wont be a stretch to say that the Meftal Spas is life-changing for those who suffer from dysmenorrhea. The medicine which is a combination mefenamic acid and dicyclomine was launched more than 40 years ago by Blue Cross Labs, an Indian pharma company. Meftal Spas enjoys the lion's share of the market at nearly 90%.But at the end of November last year, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, issued a  drug safety alert  on mefenamic acid—one of the two main components of Meftal Spas.Soon after, many regular users started avoiding the medicine and some hospitals even stopped prescribing it. In fact, pharmacies saw a marked drop in Meftal Spas sales .But media reports were misleading. While the advisory was about mefenamic acid, many media houses reported that the advisory was about Meftal Spas. And that is not all, many health professionals are questioning the govt advisory itself.Tune in.Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India's first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories

Course Advertisement: Admission to Takshashila's Graduate Certificate in Public Policy (GCPP) programme is now open. Start your 2024 with a course that will equip you with the tools to understand the world of public policy. Check all details here. India Policy Watch: In Search Of GrowthCurrent policy issues in India— RSJA quick macro update. The RBI's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met this week and, as was widely expected, kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent for the fifth consecutive time. The Governor gave the usual explanation of global political risk, higher volatility in global financial markets, and continued inflationary expectations as the reason for keeping the policy stance unchanged as ‘withdrawal of accommodation'. And the Governor was quite clear that there is no ‘inadvertent' signalling to the market that it has actually moved to a ‘neutral' stance with its prolonged pause on rate hikes:“Reaching 4 per cent (inflation target) should not just be a one-off event. It has to be durably 4 per cent and the MPC should have confidence that 4 per cent has now become durable.We are very careful in our communication. There is no inadvertence in any of our communication. So, if somebody is assuming that it is a signal to move towards a neutral stance, I think it would be incorrect.”Well, that takes care of any possibility of a rate cut before next year's elections. And what's the need, really? Between now and the elections, there's always an inflation risk on vegetable and food prices. Also, while crude oil price has been on a downward trend during this year which has helped on the inflation front, there's no guarantee how that will trend given the global geopolitical situation remains uncertain. Most importantly, what's the need to signal any rate cut when the GDP growth numbers are coming in significantly above even RBI's somewhat optimistic forecasts at the start of the year? Q2 GDP grew at 7.6 percent, almost a full percentage point above estimates, leading the central bank to up its full-year forecast to 7 per cent. All good news so far. Further, the RBI note had this optimistic comment for the near term:“The healthy twin balance sheets of banks and corporates, high capacity utilisation, continuing business optimism and the government's thrust on infrastructure spending should propel private sector capex.” Well, you can go back to the past six quarters, and you will find similar sentiments about an impending private sector capex boom from both the government and the private sector. But it is turning out to be a bit of a mirage. While both the corporate and bank balance sheets are the healthiest they have been in the past two decades, there is a continued ‘wait and watch' approach on capex, which has mystified most observers. While the consumption growth remains robust, there are early signs that this lag in private capex is beginning to slow down corporate revenue growth. From the Business Standard:“.... the slowdown in corporate revenue growth over the last one year has begun to reflect in India Inc's capital expenditure as there is a close correlation between growth in net sales and investment in fixed assets. The net sales of 725 companies, excluding BFSI and state-run oil & gas firms, were up 4.2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in H1FY24 – the lowest half-yearly increase in the last three years and down sharply from 12.2 per cent growth in the second half of FY23 and 31.3 per cent growth in the first half of FY23.”As if on cue, the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA), picked the issue of sluggish private capex at a CII event this week. Instead of the expected anodyne address at events of this nature, he made some very insightful points. First, he correctly pointed out that to expect consumption to continue to drive GDP growth while private capex sits out for as long as it has defies logic. Consumption, as we have pointed out more than a few times here, is the residual factor. And that's exactly the point the CEA made (again quoting the Business Standard):“Waiting for demand to arise before they start investing will actually delay the onset of such demand conditions happening, because usually consumption has to be the residual. Investment leads to employment, which leads to income generation and which in turn creates consumption and then the savings are recycled back into the investment. So the more the corporate sector delays its investment, this virtuous cycle will not materialise.”Then he mused on what might be holding the private sector back despite strong balance sheets, robust GDP growth and a general sense of global optimism about India's prospects:“So what is holding it (corporates) back? It is easy to say that there is general demand uncertainty. Post Covid, recovery has started. But one thing we have to remember is that this decade is going to be the decade of uncertainty, whether we like it or not. So for us to wait for the uncertainties to abate or recede, [its] like waiting for the waves to subside before taking a dip in the ocean. That is not going to happen.”I won't be surprised if there will be more plain-speaking to corporate India coming in the next few quarters on private capex from the government—three reasons for that. First, the government has pushed its capex targets in the last two budgets and, somewhat surprisingly, kept pace with them. The public capex has grown at a CAGR of over 30 per cent in the last three years. It is now about 3.3 percent of GDP as opposed to the 1.5 per cent it used to be pre-pandemic. The government has found resources to fund this capex by trimming subsidies following the pandemic and by the continued growth in tax collections because of the efficiencies brought in with GST and the rapid digitalisation of the financial system. However, given the fiscal deficit constraints, this public capex growth will be difficult to sustain at this clip. Couple that with the recent data that shows household savings at a multi-decade low of 5.1 per cent of GDP, there is no other lever of growth to pull except private capex.  Second, given global uncertainty and the ‘higher for longer' expectations in developed economies, the annual FDI flows have been the lowest in this fiscal year than at anytime in the past decade. The venture money in the form of investments by VCs and PEs has also dried up with a general ‘funding winter' that has left all but a few startups untouched. While there's stronger global demand for the MSME sector that's visible across the board, it will start hitting the wall of lack of funds in the near term unless large capex projects take off and the general sentiment of investment picks up in the private sector, which then lifts all boats. Third, this government is instinctively fiscally conservative and likes to stick to its targets. It has set a target to reduce the fiscal deficit by 1.5 per cent of GDP in the next two years. That apart, the imminent inclusion in global bond indices will also mean a greater level of scrutiny of public accounts. The government would like to project an image of fiscal prudence to boost confidence of investors. So, I don't see a continued heavy lifting through public capex as has happened in the past couple of years.Which then brings us back to private capex and that question of what's stopping it from taking off. I think CEA has a point on the general aversion of the corporates to any kind of uncertainty which has continued for so long that it seems like despite all the talk, they are unable to take the final leap in making that investment. Will this go away in due course? I guess it is possible that the Lok Sabha elections may be the final trigger which may kickstart the process. But that apart I think there are two other points that remain unaddressed. One, the promoters are yet to come to terms with the new regime of greater scrutiny by banks when they borrow, an insolvency process where they can lose control of their companies and the limited degrees of freedom to do the kind of ‘excesses' they did in the past in the garb of capex. These ‘reforms', while good for the economy as a whole, haven't been fully assimilated in the minds of Indian promoters. The better-governed promoters will start taking the leap, and others will reluctantly come along after appreciating this is the only way things are going to get done from here on. Two, while there have been good steps to improve the ease of business, there is a huge opportunity to push for more fundamental factor market reforms to improve risk-taking and bring in a new generation of entrepreneurs in sectors beyond services. Possibly, this should be the big agenda if the inevitable third term materialises in May 2024. Private capex is the big lever still waiting to be pulled. Growth cannot come out of thin air, after all.Numbers that Ought to Matter: In the ongoing Parliamentary session, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare answered a question on the number of medical colleges and MBBS seats in India. There are 706 medical colleges in India, admitting 1,08,848 MBBS students annually. Over the last ten years, the number of MBBS seats in India has more than doubled (there were 51,348 seats on offer in 2014). However, the total number of seats on offer is quite low despite India now having the largest number of medical colleges in the world. On average, each medical college has just 154 seats. By 2020, China had 420 colleges offering 286,000 seats (i.e. 680 seats per college). Government policy should focus on helping existing colleges scale up. For more context, read edition #159.Also, do check the new Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha websites. They are useful data sources. Navigating the questions and government responses is much easier now. However, a lot of data remains locked in PDF files. That's for another day. A related project idea: Someone should parse the “Question Subject” field and classify it into meaningful categories. Maybe AI tools can help here. This data could be a proxy for the subjects that India cares most about. The next step would be to track if the subjects inviting the most questions successfully influence government policy. Any takers?A Framework A Week: A Taxonomy of Defence InnovationTools for thinking about public policy— Pranay KotasthaneOn November 30th, the Defence Ministry approved IAF's capital acquisition proposal for 97 Tejas Mk1A aircraft. This move signals a major shift — India's armed forces have accepted the Tejas platform as a replacement for their inventory of old and outdated, mostly Russian, aircraft. This news item got me thinking about the process of defence innovation. What are the factors governing defence innovation? How are these factors related to each other? Why do some countries do better on this front than others? A search for answers to these questions led me to an excellent framework by Tai Ming Cheung in the Journal of Strategic Studies.Instead of identifying a simplistic policy answer, Cheung looks at defence innovation as a system composed of several interrelated factors, as shown in the chart below. In Cheung's classification, there are seven types of factors:* Catalytic factors are exogenous inputs that disrupt the defence innovation system. Examples include external threats, top-level leadership support, and revolutionary breakthrough opportunities. * Contextual factors account for all path-dependent variables such as historical legacy, level of development, market size, etc.* Input factors are the ingredients of defence innovation. Examples include Foreign Technology Transfers, budget allocations, human capital quality, and Civil–Military Integration.* Organisational factors refer to the capabilities and mandates of organisations set up to deliver defence products. * Institutional factors refer to shared norms, plans, strategies, intellectual property protection, and government-market relations.* Networks and sub-systems include formal and informal networks linking various sub-systems.* Output factors shape the final products coming out of the system. Examples include sales, marketing, commercialisation, and maintenance.This approach allows the author to create a typology of defence innovation regimes, wherein specific pathways within the chart get amplified. Two such types relevant to India are incremental and rapidly catching-up regimes. In incremental catch-up regimes, catalytic factors don't play a significant role. Such countries produce incremental improvements by parsing input factors such as technology transfers through organisational factors (military and state agencies) and institutional factors (plans, strategies, and norms). The paper identifies India as a prominent example of this regime. Cheung illustrates the model as follows.Rapidly Catching-up Regimes are underdeveloped defence innovation systems pushed by catalytic factors towards increased resource allocations and a strong research and development sub-system. Cheung classifies North Korea and China in this category. This model is illustrated in the chart below.Readers should check the full paper and other regime types based on this framework. But the relevant question for us is this: has India transitioned from an incremental catch-up regime to a rapidly catching-up one? There are some positive signs. Catalytic factors are playing a far bigger role now than in the past. This is mainly because China's aggression and Pakistan's relative decline have led to a new emphasis on the defence innovation system. The PM's recent sortie in the Tejas illustrates that another catalytic factor—“top-level leadership support”—now has a more prominent role. There is also more focus on civil-military integration, diffusion networks, and technology development than in the past. And given that India enjoys a positive relationship with the US, the possibilities of “Foreign technology transfers” (a crucial input factor) are substantially higher than in the past.The weakness is in the organisational realm. That part of the system is still governed largely by state-run entities with low technology absorption capabilities and fewer incentives for efficient production. The capabilities of universities and laboratories are also quite limited. The procurement system, classified as a network and sub-systems factor, is another weak link that discourages innovation while protecting inefficient government-run firms. My subjective assessment using this framework is that India is catching up faster than before. It doesn't seem to be “rapidly” catching up, though. Further, the more radical pathways, which lead to rapid breakthroughs in defence innovation systems, remain out of reach. Whatever your assessment, Tai Ming Cheung's framework is useful and helps clear many cobwebs of defence innovation.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters* [Question] What, according to you, is the Indian government's best sports policy to date? Please drop a comment with your reasoning. We will put across your views and ours in an upcoming edition.* [Podcast] The latest Puliyabaazi discusses the politics of polarisation. Gaurav Sood, a political scientist who has worked on this topic for over a decade, gives a detailed account of the psychological underpinnings of polarisation.* [Article] This article on industrial policy challenges some of our Bayesian priors. More importantly, it links to many recent papers showcasing empirical research on industrial policy measures.* [Article] A good article explaining how DARPA functions. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit publicpolicy.substack.com

In the fifth episode of the Distributed Energy For People & The Planet series, we continue our conversation from the last episode of the series joined by Shweta Narayan from the India-based NGO  "Health Care Without Harm", and Shri Ram Kumar S, IAS - Project Director of the Meghalaya Health Systems Strengthening Project (MEGHSSP). This series is hosted by Marilyn Smith of the Energy Action Project (EnAct) and produced in collaboration with Global SDG7 HubsGuest Bios:Shweta Narayan is an environmental health researcher with over two decades of campaigning and advocacy experience in environmental justice issues, Swetha is the International Climate and Health Campaigner for the India-based NGO  "Health Care Without Harm."Shri Ram Kumar S, IAS works within the India Administrative Service, Mr. Ramkumar fulfills multiple roles in the state of Meghalaya,  in northeast India. Currently, he is the Additional Secretary to the Department of Health and Family Welfare and Mission Director of the National Health Mission. As such, he has assumed the role of Project Director of the Meghalaya Health Systems Strengthening Project (MEGHSSP). It was within this state that the government,  SELCO Foundation, and other stakeholders piloted the effort to combine distributed renewables and highly efficient technologies to upgrade rural and remote health clinics.  Learn more about Health Care Without Harm | MEGHSSP | EnAct | Global SDG7 HubsConnect on LinkedIn:  Marilyn | The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnActFollow on Twitter:  The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnAct | Marilyn SmithFollow on Instagram: The Energy Talk | Global SDG7 Hubs | EnAct Subscribe to our newsletter

The Central government recently suspended Professor KS James, the director of the International Institute of Population Studies, that works with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to conduct important studies such as National Family Health Survey, Global Adult Tobacco Survey among others. The government cited irregularities in recruitment as the reason for suspension, as academics came out in support of him. The opposition parties claim that this suspension reflects the government's uneasy relationship with data-based evidence.  In 2019, PC Mohanan from the National Statistical Commission quit saying that one of the reasons was the late release of unemployment data measured under the National Sample Survey Office NSSO. The data that was officially released after the election results showed that joblessness was up to 6.1% in the country then, the highest it had been for 45 years. The government has recently also rejected the data released by the World Health Organisation related to excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021.  Suno India's Menaka Rao speaks with Dr Aashish Gupta, a demographer and a sociologist. His research looks at the interrelations between health, environment, and inequality in developing countries. He has been published extensively on various subjects including Covid-19 related mortality, life expectancy, open defecation in relation to gender, and caste among other variables.  References  'Unhappy With Data Sets,' Modi Govt Suspends Director of Institute Which Prepares NFHS Scientists, Opposition slam Centre over IIPS Director's suspension - The Hindu Was sidelined, govt not releasing job figures, says National Statistics Commission chief PC Mohanan on why he quit - India Today Unemployment rate at 45-year high, confirms Labour Ministry data - The Hindu Global Hunger Index attempt to tarnish India's image: Centre - The Hindu. Reversing the Gaze - Re-examining Estimates of India's Development Indicators by International Organisations Shamika Ravi writes: Statisticians can be wrong | The Indian Express Shamika Ravi is wrong. It is unfair to blame survey methodology when results disagree with a view point | The Indian Express Why is anaemia being dropped from National Family Health Survey? Centre defends National Family Health Survey-6 questionnaire, says disability data won't change fast - The Hindu Govt initiates moves to set 'Indian' standards for stunting in children | India News Growth reference charts and the nutritional status of Indian children (PDF) Are Children in West Bengal Shorter Than Children in Bangladesh? Delayed NFHS derails health monitoring - The HinduSee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Rotavirus is a major cause of childhood disease and death in India. In 2016, the Government of India began a phased introduction of the rotavirus vaccine, and by 2019, the vaccine had been scaled up to cover the entire country. In this interview, Rebecca Chase, a Program Officer with JSI's Immunization Center, speaks with Dr. Arup Deb Roy, Project Director, and Dr. Amanjot Kaur, Senior Program Officer, both with JSI Private Limited's new vaccine introduction team, about their experiences working the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to introduce the rotavirus vaccine in India. They discuss the challenges and successes of introducing a new vaccine in a large country like India and how their approach could be replicated for future vaccines.

On June 4 and 6, the AI Unit of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Wadhwani AI, participated in the G20 3rd Health Group Meeting in Hyderabad. The meeting aimed to highlight the government's focus on AI in the healthcare sector. In this podcast, Nabodita Ganguly is joined by Shekar Sivasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer, Wadhwani AI. They discuss Wadhwani AI's participation in the recent G20 Summit and the government's focus on AI in healthcare and welfare. Sivasubramanian mentions that India is well-positioned to take a leadership role in the AI space due to the increasing opportunities and applications. He explains that their participation in the G20 summit focused on showcasing solutions in the healthcare sector, including clinical decision support systems, radiology image interpretation, dermatology, and tuberculosis. When discussing the achievements in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Sivasubramanian explains how public health personnel and top health institutions identify problems and develop solutions through AI. After obtaining relevant data, the AI solutions are integrated into existing government applications, such as the eSanjeevani app. The solutions undergo pilot testing and validation before being deployed nationwide. Sivasubramanian provides examples of successful AI implementations. One such case is the use of AI for disease surveillance, where they analyse millions of articles to extract relevant information for the health industry. This information helps the government take timely actions to prevent outbreaks and potentially save thousands of lives. Another example is the integration of AI into agricultural news monitoring, allowing for the detection of crop diseases and providing actionable insights for the agriculture sector. Overall, the conversation highlights India's progress in AI and the government's active involvement in adopting and rolling out AI solutions. Listen in. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/business-line/message

Mohit Kumar came to Australia as a 17-year-old international student in 1994. He has served in the New South Wales police force for the past 20 years. He shares his election policies to tackle domestic violence, alcoholism and gambling, and the measures he plans to employ to ease the pressures of cost of living issues in his electorate, Riverstone.

Grace Martin Highley (1895–1985) was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame for laying the foundation for child welfare practices across the state. Her descendants, Karen Lockhart (granddaughter), Cheryl Zimiga (granddaughter), and Toni Hansen (great-granddaughter), recently joined Steve Flanery, South Dakota Hall of Fame Board Director, for a conversation about Grace's lasting impact in South Dakota.In this episode, you will hear:Grace's early life working doing welfare work during the Great DepressionThe leadership Grace showed that set an example for other state's welfare programsThe lasting impact her work has had, still seen today.“The best thing you can do is listen to the child.” – Grace Martin HighleyEarly in her career, Grace took on the position of Relief Worker for the Fall River County Commissioners, where she was to decide which families should be given federal money to buy food. The first family she visited lived in a cave, had nine children, and only milk from six goats and flour. This experience solidified her lifelong dedication to the welfare of children in the state, and by 1939, she became the director of South Dakota Child Welfare. For 21 years, she built a nationally-recognized program based on the needs of children and on goals and professional training–which did not exist in 1939.Learn more about Grace Martin Highley on her Legacy Page here: https://sdexcellence.org/Grace_Martin_Highley_2022Follow us for more stories of Dream Chasers at:Facebook: www.facebook.com/SDhalloffame Instagram: @sdhalloffame Website: www.sdhalloffame.org

In this episode I speak with Rebecca, who has 25 years of social work experience in child protection, legal aid and more recently in private practice. Rebecca has extensive skills in risk assessments and complex case management for young people, and has worked also for the physical abuse and neglect of children counselling service. The majority of her career has been as a criminal consultant for legal aid, and supporting high risk young offenders. More recently Rebecca has moved into part-time private practice, where she continues to specialise in family group conferencing. Links to resources mentioned in this week's episode: Legal Aid NSW (podcasts, annual reports, mental health, Work Development Orders, Closing the Gap Project, Health Justice Partnership Outreach Services and more) - https://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/ Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare - https://www.cfecfw.asn.au/ Australian Institute of Criminology - https://www.aic.gov.au/ Safe and Sound Protocol (Unyte Integrated Listening) - https://integratedlistening.com/ssp-safe-sound-protocol/ Trauma Resource Foundation - https://traumaresearchfoundation.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw-SEz-eh-gIVRQ4rCh0EkQJHEAAYASAAEgL3ivD_BwE PESI mental health continuing education seminars - https://www.pesi.com/ Psychotherapy Networker magazine - https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/ Internal Family Systems Institute - https://ifs-institute.com/ Tania Singer - https://taniasinger.de/ Janina Fisher - https://janinafisher.com/ Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal Informed Therapies by Stephen Porges and Deb Dana - https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324000501 The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe by Stephen Porges - https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393707878 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score The Wisdom of Trauma by Gabor Mate - https://thewisdomoftrauma.com/ This episode's transcript can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gmut4QtNyyiA0D4go9VjHPYXr6RI23yBsuU3SQF1oxc/edit?usp=sharing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/socialworkspotlight/message

India faces a ‘suicide emergency' today. It contributes to one-fifth of the total suicide deaths in the world and suicide is the leading cause of death among 15-29 year-olds in the country. The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare released the National Suicide Prevention Strategy last month which aims to reduce suicide mortality by 10% by 2030. In this episode, Shrikrishna Upadhyaya hosts Sachin Kalbag (Senior Fellow, Takshashila Institution) to unpack the strategy and discuss the multi-sectoral approach to tackling suicide adopted by the strategy. Read the National Suicide Prevention Strategy here. You can follow Sachin Kalbag on twitter: https://twitter.com/SachinKalbag You can follow Shrikrishna Upadhyaya on twitter: https://twitter.com/shrikrishna5  Check out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/ You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app. You can check out our website at https://shows.ivmpodcasts.com/featured Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts/ Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavn, Gaana, Amazon Music Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 1 was National Voluntary Blood Donation Day. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare organised a massive drive- #RaktdaanAmritMahotsav- starting from September 17 - which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday all the way up to October 1. The Ministry claimed that they collected a record number of blood units- about 1.68 lakhs in a single day. But how do blood centres cope for the rest of the year? There are 3932 blood banks in the country for more than 700 districts, as per the latest records. Suno India's Menaka Rao spoke to Dr Joy Mammen to understand the universe of blood banking and transfusions. Dr Mammen is head of transfusion medicine at Christian Medical College, Vellore. Dr Mammen led a major study commissioned by the National Blood Transfusion Council on the clinical demand of blood in the country.  References World record created on Day 1 of ‘Raktdaan Amrit Mahotsav', Mandaviya tweets | Latest News India - Hindustan TimesCommon Cause vs Union Of India And Others on 4 January, 1996National Blood PolicyThe_clinical_demand_and_supply_of_blood_in_India:_A_National_level_estimation_studyRepeat voluntary non-remunerated blood donor is the best quality indicator for blood safetySee sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

British Columbia is changing provincial legislation to remove barriers for Indigenous Peoples exercising jurisdiction over child and family services, becoming the first province in Canada to expressly recognize this inherent right within provincial legislation.“This is a pivotal shift toward real and meaningful change that respects Indigenous rights and improves services and supports for Indigenous children, youth and families,” said Premier John Horgan. “B.C. was the first province to bring the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into provincial law and it's fulfilling to see how that bold action continues to create reforms that support reconciliation and make life better for Indigenous communities.”The amendments, the largest in more than 25 years, will respect the inherent rights of Indigenous communities to provide their own child and family services, and to keep Indigenous children safely connected to their cultures and their communities.“The colonial era of the Province controlling child welfare must come to an end — and this legislation cannot be passed soon enough,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs. “This legislation holds the promise of finally affirming the inherent rights of First Nations to ensure our children are with their families, communities and people. It brings me incredible joy to think about this change in my lifetime, and for my grandchildren and great grandchildren. As Indigenous Peoples, we have the right to exercise self-determination over our children and we are glad this is finally being recognized through law.”The changes will also help to further address and reduce the disproportionate number of Indigenous children in provincial care.“We know that the current child-welfare system is a continuation of harmful colonial practices, and the solution is to re-assert jurisdiction over their children, youth and families in accordance with their customs, traditions and Indigenous laws,” said Mitzi Dean, Minister of Children and Family Development. “These amendments are a significant step in the creation of an approach that properly respects the inherent rights and legal orders of Indigenous Peoples and reshapes the provincial laws to focus on the best interests of Indigenous children.” The modernized legislation will support Indigenous Peoples to re-establish, develop and exercise child-welfare laws for their community members and to recreate their own models for child and family service delivery, including family support, child protection and adoption services. Upholding jurisdiction will have an unparalleled positive impact on Indigenous children, youth and families, respecting and facilitating connections to communities, and resulting in healthier lifelong outcomes.The amendments were developed in consultation and co-operation with Indigenous rightsholders, Modern Treaty Nations, Indigenous Governing Bodies (IGBs), Métis Nation BC and Indigenous partners. This is an important step in meeting government's commitments under the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and achieving the goals in the Declaration Act Action Plan, Theme 1: Self Determination and Inherent Right of Self Government.

Antibiotics are the mainstay of modern medicine and play a critical role in treating bacterial infections, and saving lives. But what happens when you take them in excess? According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics has become one of the biggest global public health threats. As many as 10 million people could die each year as a result of antimicrobial resistance by 2050, experts say. And for India, this is an urgent problem. The country is among the world's largest antibiotic consumers in absolute volume, but doesn't have a comprehensive surveillance system to monitor use. And resistance to drugs has become so widespread that sometimes even some of the common infections are difficult to treat. Is this happening due to self-medication, as drugs are easily accessible over-the-counter? Or is it because of over-prescription by doctors? Do patients have enough awareness about antibiotics? In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how to tackle India's antibiotics overuse. Presenter: Devina Gupta Contributors: Dinesh Madan, Chairman of retail distribution chemist alliance; Dr Rachna Kucheria, founder of DocGenie Telemedicine and family physician; Dr Suneela Garg, professor of excellence for community medicine, chair of programme advisory committee at National Institute of Health and Family Welfare

National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) - a government regulatory agency that controls the prices of medicines in India - comes out with a list every three years. Through the National List of Essential Medicines or NLEM, the regulator fixes a cap on the prices of essential medicines so that they are affordable and widely available to everyone. When was NLEM first released in India? The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the first NLEM in 1996. It contained 279 medicines. The subsequent revised list came in 2003 which had 354 medicines. In 2011, the list was again revised and had 348 medicines. In 2015, the last time the list was revised, it contained 851 medicines. It was decided that it would be revised every three years. And on Tuesday, the government came out with a fresh list. It added 34 and removed 26 drugs from the NLEM.  Several antibiotics, anti-diabetes and anti-infectives have been included in the list.  How are medicines included in the NLEM? Several factors are looked at before including a drug in the NLEM. According to the regulations, the drug must be critical and essential for curing a disease. Also, disease burden is considered an essential factor. At one point, TB might be more important to tackle. At the next moment, another disease like Covid-19 may become more important. Efficacy and Safety The medicine must have “unequivocal” evidence of efficacy and wider acceptance based on its safety to be included in the list. The NLEM guidelines state that the total price of the treatment must be considered while including the drug in NLEM. Only unit price may not be the best benchmark for this.   Fixed Dose Combinations and Turnover The single dose medicines are considered for inclusion in NLEM. FDCs are only included if they have a proven advantage concerning the therapeutic effect. Also, the decision must not be taken solely based on high sales turnover. When is a medicine dropped from NLEM? A drug is deleted from the list if it gets banned in India. Also, it is removed if reports of concerns about drug safety emerge. If a better, more cost-effective medicine is available in the market, it can be replaced on the list. Another criterion for deletion is the change in the country's disease burden. 

 Acknowledgement of Country// 7:05 - News Headlines// Down City Streets - Archie Roach// 7:15 - The Justice Map Part 1.//​Anya Saravanan spoke with Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing. Anya is a Tamil woman and community lawyer working in summary crime and family violence. Here's part 1 of that interview.​// 7:30 - The Justice Map Part 2.//Beggar Man - Archie Roach// Part 2 of the conversation between ​​Anya Saravanan and Ayan Shirwa from Diaspora Blues about the Justice Map project and their work challenging carceral narratives and over-policing.// Buoyancy - Body Type// 7:45 - Protected Areas and Conservation Policy//Dr Benjamin Cooke, a senior lecturer at RMIT's Centre for Urban Research, joins us to discuss the Albanese government's commitment to protect 30% of Australia's land and waters by 2030, what this actually means, and why it needs to go further. The government's commitment to this target was re-affirmed by Minister for the Environment and Water Tanya Plibersek alongside last month's launch of the 5-yearly State of the Environment Report. Ben and several colleagues recently co-authored an article in the Conversation breaking down the 30 by 30 target - you can read it here.//To find out more about some of the issues Ben discussed, check out the links below:Country Needs People: https://www.countryneedspeople.org.au/Trust for Nature to return Neds Corner to First People of the Millewa Mallee Aboriginal Corporation: https://trustfornature.org.au/news/victorias-largest-conservation-reserve-to-return-to-traditional-owners/The 30x30 international target background: https://www.iucn.org/news/protected-areas/202204/targets-effective-area-based-conservation-under-30x30-ambitions-what-counts-who-countsFederal Government data on protected area: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/nrs/science/capad 8:00 - Music// F Troop - Archie Roach// Bona - Sampa the Great// 8:​15 - ​Youth Homelessness After Leaving Care//In recognition of homelessness week this week, we will be speaking to Reggie Chang. Youth homelessness remains an urgent issue in Victoria. With poor access to housing and rising rent prices, young people leaving out-of-home are particularly vulnerable. Reggie joins us today to share their experience of homelessness after leaving care, as well as their role with The Centre for Excellence and Child and Family Welfare.​//​ Crash - Stevan ft. Tommy Richman//

In this episode, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers speaks to Indian Express' Anant Goenka and Kaunain Sheriff about the Indian government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, subsidies on fertilizers to protect farmers, preventing non-communicable diseases, and how he goes incognito in hospitals to see how the last mile implementation of policy plays out.

Recently the 5th National Family Health Survey report was released. The report has information about population, health, family welfare, and associated domains. In this episode, Suman Joshi and Sarthak Pradhan discuss the public policy implications of some of these findings.Follow Suman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sujo2906Follow Sarthak on Twitter: https://twitter.com/psarthak19Check out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/You can listen to this show and other incredible shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/iosYou can check out our website at https://www.ivmpodcasts.com

On March 24, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey in India 2019 – 2021. The last such survey took place in 1955-58 after independence. The survey shows that 312 persons per 100000 people in the country have tuberculosis of all forms. The survey also has information on risk factors related to tuberculosis such as malnutrition, diabetes, alcoholism etc and the kind of expenditure a tuberculosis patient undertakes during his or her treatment.  To understand more about this survey and its relevance, Suno India's Menaka Rao spoke to Dr Sriram S from National Institute of Tuberculosis Research, Chennai who is also the principal investigator of this survey.  To know more about tuberculosis in India, you can listen to our series- Gasping for Breath.  References  National TB Prevalence Survey in India 2019 – 2021 :: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Prevalence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis – A Baseline Survey In Central India – PMC TUBERCULOSIS SITUATION IN INDIA: MEASURING IT THROUGH TIME* a cluster randomised trial of nutritional support (food rations) to reduce TB incidence in household contacts of patients with microbiologically confirmed pulmo… | BMJ Open How Kerala Is Fighting TB, And Winning https://tbcindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/IndiaTBReport2022/TBAnnaulReport2022.pdf See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Listen to another episode of CNS #endAIDS Dialogues featuring Padamshree and ASI Lifetime Achievement Awardee 2022 Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, who was earlier heading epidemiology at Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and also has been a noted HIV scientist and expert at National AIDS Research Institute. He is in conversation with CNS Managing Editor Shobha Shukla at 13th National Conference of AIDS Society of India (13th ASICON).Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, and other podcast streaming platforms.

In a landmark decision, the CCI (Competition Commission of India) has slammed three large private hospitals for overcharging patients unfairly by sending them notices. Will this lead to finally reigning in inflated medical bills at hospitals? Is the overcharging legal? What can the government do to regulate medical costs? Host Ratna Bhushan finds out from Sujatha Rao, Former Bureaucrat with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Teena Thacker, Senior Assistant Editor at the Economic Times, and Sonam Chandwani, Managing Partner at KS Legal & Associates. Credits: India Today, Mirror Now, Times of India

In November this year, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the National Health Accounts estimates for 2017-18. These estimates reveal that the total government health expenditure has decreased from 3.8% in 2016-17 to 3.3% in 2017-18 and that the share of government health expenditure in the Gross Domestic Product or GDP of the country has increased to 1.35% in 2017-18 from 1.15% in 2013-14. According to these estimates, the out of pocket expenditure or money spent by households on healthcare decreased from 58.7% in 2016-17 to 48.8% in 2017-18.  To make sense of the national health accounts estimates 2017-18 and to get a health economist's perspective, host Kunika Balhotra spoke with Dr Indranil Mukhopadhyay.  Dr Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor at OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He has a PhD in public health and health economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi.  He has led several research studies supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India; WHO, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and has several international and national publications. Show Notes National Health Accounts Estimates See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Data has shaped policy decisions across the world. But India's relationship with data has been complicated. Even so, the Covid-19 pandemic has proved a big step-up for many governments usually reticent about releasing public information. Today, the central and state govts share data on cases, deaths and tests. But information gaps still exist. And accessibility is still an arduous task.  Some good private initiatives that came up during the early stage of the pandemic helped researchers and journalists report on the Covid-19 situation in the country. But with some of them like covid19india.org discontinuing their service, dependence on state and central governments for data access has increased. Our analysis found that only 22 of India's 35 states and Union Territories had made a digital dashboard on Covid-19 information. Five did not have updated dashboards. And one, Puducherry, updated it with a lag of seven days. While almost all states – 32 of the 35 to be precise – posted their daily Covid-19 bulletin on social media, not everybody provided all information.  Only 13 states provided complete information on the kind of Covid-19 tests they conducted. And most did not categorise RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests separately.  The central government has made case positivity, or the number of Covid-19 cases as a proportion of total tests conducted, a parameter to assess severity of Covid-19 in a district. But only 10 states provided data on district-wise tests for Covid-19, which is instrumental in estimating case positivity across districts. On the 11 criteria for easy data access, not even one state got a perfect score. Only seven of the 35 states and UTs satisfied 10 of the 11 criteria. Only two could deliver data on nine. And 12 states met fewer than seven criteria. The worst performers in data mismanagement have been some of the country's largest states by population. Even those that have scored well on our data access index have had myriad issues. Punjab, for instance, did not put its medical bulletin on its Covid-19 website for almost a week. Jharkhand, owing to a strike, did not update the dashboard. Data for Bihar is available only in Hindi. Andhra Pradesh, which satisfied seven of the 11 listed criteria, has been releasing its medical bulletin in Telugu. Another interesting aspect is that states which are reluctant to publish data are also the ones which are testing less. For example, there is Uttar Pradesh, which satisfied only two of the 11 criteria. There is Bihar, which satisfied five, and Madhya Pradesh, which satisfied just four. All of them also have some of the lowest testing ratios. Are only states to blame for difficulty in data access? The central government hasn't been helpful either. It does provide data on cases, deaths and recoveries. But, despite getting information from states, it does not give data on state-wise or district-wise tests. Besides, the website of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare does not let users access historical data on Covid-19 in the country.  Clearly, governments still need to do a lot to be more transparent and forthcoming with data. 

Following the two devastating waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, for many of us in India and indeed in several regions across the world, haunting images of patients waiting outside hospitals and family members struggling to find a bed for their loved ones may not have faded from memory. To avoid a repeat of this tragic crisis, what are important lessons from this experience? How might we be better prepared in the future? We discuss this in detail with Dr. Nachiket Mor. Dr. Mor was a member of the Planning Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Universal Health Care, the Primary Care Task Force of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the Task Force on Global Health at the Academy of Medicine in Washington DC. His current work is principally focused on the design of national and regional health systems. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy at IIIT Bangalore. In this conversation, Dr. Mor talks to us about the value of a primary care provider or PCP-led model. You can read more on this from Dr. Mor here and here. Some of the research that we mentioned in the podcast could be found below: 1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341039677_Empowered_communities_and_Primary_Care_Providers_not_hospitals_hold_the_key_to_building_a_durable_response_to_COVID-19_in_Developing_Countries 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562727/

This podcast was recorded in April 2020 In this podcast, we are talking about mental health with Soumitra Pathare who is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of the Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy at ILS. He is also a member of the Policy Group appointed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, to draft a new national mental health policy for India. Credits: Recording: Shantala Hari Dass (IndiaBioscience) Artwork: Lakshmi Ganesan (IndiaBioscience) Editing: Moumita Mazumdar

Today's episode explores the particular roles of Ministers in the planning and execution of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, especially in their sectors of origin. These ministers actively contributed and supervised the recruitment of youth to join the Interahamwe militia and continued inciting hatred for Tutsi amongst civilians. Today's episode focuses on former Minister of Youth and Sports, Callixte Nzabonimana who originated in Gitarama and former Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, who was from Butare.v

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Dr Smarajit Jana was an epidemiologist who curbed the spread of HIV through sex work at the height of the epidemic in the 90's. He realised that combating HIV was not a question of information but of empowerment, and led a structural change fighting for sex workers' rights. He helped the country's administration understand the sex work community and flipped the HIV control programme's disease-centric perspective to a rights based one. Dr Jana passed away earlier this month on May 8 due to COVID-19. He was also a member of the National Task Force on COVID-19. On this episode of The Suno India Show, reporter Suryatapa Mukherjee explores Dr Jana's legacy. She speaks to K Sujatha Rao, former Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, and Bharati Dey, head of sex workers' collective Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee. We look back at how a public health worker began a fight for sex workers in Asia's largest red light district, Sonagachi, that reverberated across the world. The Sonagachi project: a sustainable community intervention program Dr. Smarajit Jana  – The DMSS  project with sex workers in Kolkata:  challenges and achievements See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

“Testing, vigorous testing is the key to defeating the pandemic” – that was the World Health Organisation's motto as half the globe was wading in the dark when the COVID pandemic broke out in 2020. Yet, a year later, it seems that India's testing hasn't been able to keep up with the second wave of COVID. In the first wave, India managed to dramatically amplify its daily tests from some 38,000 tests at the beginning of June 2020 to at least 10 lakh daily tests by August. Comparatively, during the second wave, when the country has been adding one or two lakh cases daily, we've conducted less than 20 lakh tests a day for the majority of April and May. But insufficient testing could have some serious ramifications. Firstly, given that the majority of India's population remains unvaccinated, there's but one way to keep the infection in check – testing, tracing and isolating. Secondly, as case rates appeared to be stabilising in some parts of the country, recently the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed that the positivity rate in 382 out of the 741 districts in the country, is still over 10 per cent. What this high positivity rate could indicate, according to experts, is that either the number of tests that are coming back positive is too high, or that the number of total tests being conducted is too low. Obviously, there's no knowing how many people are COVID-positive at a given time, but a higher positivity rate indicates a higher transmission of the virus. And if we're not testing enough, we may not be able to detect new cases of community transmission. So, can we even get the full picture of what is happening in the country, or be able to bring down the second surge successfully if we don't test sufficiently? Considering that epidemiologists are saying that newer waves are inevitable, in what ways could India strengthen its testing strategy, so that the infrastructure doesn't get overwhelmed in the coming waves? Producer and Host: Shorbori PurkayasthaGuests: Sarang Deo, Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business and Executive Director-Max Institute of Healthcare Management,Prof NK Ganguly, the former Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research,Manisha Bhinge, the Managing Director of Health Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation Editor: Shelly Walia Music: Big Bang FuzzReferences: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Testing Listen to The Big Story podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/2AYdLIl Saavn: http://bit.ly/2oix78C Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/2ntMV7S Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2IyLAUQ Deezer: http://bit.ly/2Vrf5Ng

Interviews with Nevena Spirovska and Reggie Chang.  Nevena Spirovska from the Victorian Pride Lobby discusses the call for police not to march in uniform at Midsumma's Pride March.  She also discusses the Victorian State Budget and updates us about the Lobby's local government inclusion campaign.  Home - Victorian Pride Lobby (vicpridelobby.org)  Midsumma Festival - Midsumma Festival - Home  Reggie Chang from the Centre For Excellence in Child and Family Welfare discusses Fostering Connections, an out of home care programme run by the Centre.  They also discuss homelessness and mental health and share their own out of home care experiences.  Home Page | Fostering Connections  CFECFW - Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare  QLife  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded. 

Interviews with Rick Spencer and Sam Biondo.  Rick Spencer from Maribyrnong Residents for LGBTQIA+ Equality in Melbourne's West talks about their vision and ideas to make the municipality more inclusive and safer for LGBTQIA+ folks and how Maribyrnong Council can help.  Maribyrnong Residents for Lgbtqia+ Equality | Facebook  Sam Biondo from the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association [VAADA] discusses the Embracing Equality Charter, an initiative supported by a diversity of peak bodies in Victoria to address inequalities experienced by LGBTIQ people.  VAADA is one of the signatories to the Charter.  'Australian first' – Victoria’s social peaks pledge to support LGBTIQ+ communities with Embracing Equality Charter - Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare (cfecfw.asn.au)  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.

#proning #oxygenlevel #COVID-19 #coronavirus #treatment In this video, I am going to talk about an exercise that will increase your oxygen saturation level "PRONING" this exercise is certified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. PRONING is the process of turning a patient with precise, safe motions, from their back onto their abdomen (stomach), so the individual is lying face down. PRONING is a medically accepted position to improves breathing comfort and oxygenation. It is extremely beneficial in COVID-19 patients with compromised breathing comfort, especially during home isolation. https://www.thebesthealths.com/ You guys can also download our app which is available on the play store. App link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tech.pregnancy Follow our social media accounts Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thebesthealths_official/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thebesthealthsofficial/ And for online consultation contact https://dutydr.com/doctor/profile/66​​ Dr. D. K. Rai MBBS, MD, PGDHM Dip Resp Medicine Dip Psychiatry Specialist in Autism from the USA

As the second wave of COVID-19 burgeons with a furious pace, vaccines become even more important. The site of vaccination becomes a site of resistance, quite literally. In Episode 5 of the podcast ‘Healthy Dose', Vidhi's Shreya Shrivastava speaks to Dr. Aqsa Shaikh, Associate Professor, Jamia Hamdard, regarding the logistics of vaccine delivery and the day to day functioning of a COVID-19 vaccination centre. How are vaccines transported and cold-chains maintained? How do vaccination centres respond to adverse events? How can vaccination centres be more inclusive? Join us as we find answers to these questions. Please send an email to us at health@vidhilegalpolicy.in for queries and feedback on this episode. Readings: 1. How Vaccines are Transported & What Happens at a Vaccination Site: Here's All You Need to Know (News18.com) at https://www.news18.com/news/india/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-site-transport-cold-chain-explained-india-3288296.html 2. 29,000 cold chain points, 41,000 deep freezers: How India is prepping for Covid-19 vaccination (LiveMint.com) at https://www.livemint.com/news/india/29-000-cold-chain-points-41-000-deep-freezers-how-india-is-prepping-for-covid-19-vaccination-11608029738843.html 3. COVID vaccine does not harm fertility in women: Doctors (The New Indian Express) at https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2021/feb/27/covid-vaccine-does-not-harm-fertility-in-women-doctors-2269732.html 4. Operational Guidelines: Strengthening Immunisation Systems to reach every child (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India) at https://imi3.nhp.gov.in/assets/document/Operational_Guidelines.pdf 5. Covid-19 Vaccine Operational Guidelines (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India) at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/COVID19VaccineOG111Chapter16.pdf 6. Covid-19 Vaccine FAQs(Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India) at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/covid_vaccination/vaccination/faqs.html#who-will-get-the-vaccine Credits: Concept and Script: Yogini Oke and Shreya Shrivastava; Editing: Akshat Agarwal; Research: Rajashri Seal; Production: Nithin Shamsudhin; Design: Akhil Tom Prakash

Last week, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare came up with a report on the The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2020 which was introduced in Lok Sabha on 14 September 2020. The Bill seeks to provide for the regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) services in the country.Sunila Dixit talks to Shambhavi Naik about the provisions of the bill, the ethical issues associated with ART services and the recommendations made by the standing committee.You can follow Sunila on twitter: @SunilaDixit(SunilaDixit)You can follow Shambhavi on twitter: @TheNaikMic(TheNaikMic)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

In this episode, I share some important contextual information about Sex Ed Rewind. I'll walk you through what the show is and how its structured, discuss what exactly comprehensive sex education is, look at some laws in place that are currently legislating sex education in the States, and discuss the bleak consequences that these laws are having on all of us. This information is helpful to understand when listening to the show moving forward so we can all contextualize why exactly some of these sex education experiences are problematic, why they happened at all, and most importantly how to make sex education better for everyone. I share tons of facts in this episode, and the citations are listed below. Shameless plug here, I published a piece back in 2019 all about sex education in the United States and it goes into much greater detail then I do in this episode. If you are interested in learning more, give it a read (it is the first citation below)! Confort, Caro. “Sex Education as a Human Right and How United States Law Is Denying Its Citizens.” Global Affairs Review, 15 Apr. 2019. https://gareviewnyu.com/2019/04/15/sex-education-as-a-human-right-and-how-united-states-law-is-denying-its-citizens/ (https://gareviewnyu.com/2019/04/15/sex-education-as-a-human-right-and-how-united-states-law-is-denying-its-citizens/) Galvan, Astrid. “Study Finds LGBTQ People Much Likelier to Be Crime Victims.” PBS, 2 Oct. 2020, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/study-finds-lgbtq-people-much-likelier-to-be-crime-victims (www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/study-finds-lgbtq-people-much-likelier-to-be-crime-victims). Hall, Kelli Stidham, et al. “The State of Sex Education in the United States.” Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 58, no. 6, June 2016, pp. 595–597., doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth. 2016.03.032. “Incidence, Prevalence, and Cost of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States.” Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/2018-STI-incidence-prevalence-factsheet.pdf (https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/2018-STI-incidence-prevalence-factsheet.pdf) Kumar, Vipan B, and Pratibha Kumar. “Right to Sexuality Education as a Human Right.” The Journal of Family Welfare, vol. 57, no. 2, Dec. 2011, pp. 23–29. National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2020). Domestic Violence. https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2497/domestic_violence-2020080709350855.pdf?1596811079991 (https://assets.speakcdn.com/assets/2497/domestic_violence-2020080709350855.pdf?1596811079991). Pimentel, Caetano. “The Human Right to Education: Freedom and Empowerment.” Multicultural Education, vol. 13, no. 4, 2006, pp. 2–10. Ronan, Wyatt. “New FBI Hate Crimes Report Shows Increases in Anti-LGBTQ Attacks.” Human Rights Campaign, 17 Nov. 2020, http://www.hrc.org/press-releases/new-fbi-hate-crimes-report-shows-increases-in-anti-lgbtq-attacks (www.hrc.org/press-releases/new-fbi-hate-crimes-report-shows-increases-in-anti-lgbtq-attacks).  “Sex Education Laws and State Attacks.” Planned Parenthood Action Fund, 2018, https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/sex-education/sex-education-laws-and-state-attacks (www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/sex-education/sex-education-laws-and-state-attacks). “Sex and HIV Education.” Guttmacher Institute, 3 Oct. 2018,  http://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/sex-and-hiv-education (www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/sex-and-hiv-education)? “Teen Pregnancy.” Guttmacher Institute, 1 Dec. 2018, http://www.guttmacher.org/united-states/teens/teen-pregnancy? (www.guttmacher.org/united-states/teens/teen-pregnancy?)

Featured interview: South Korea's current family welfare policy and related policies to cope with the increase of one-person households -1인 가구 증가 현상과 현행 4인 가구 중심 정책의 발전방향 Guest: Professor Jun Hee-Jung, Department of Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare released the findings of the first phase of the National Family Health Survey 5. While indicators on family planning and vaccination have improved, the trends of nutrition are concerning. Anirudh Kanisetti talks to Sunila Dixit and Shambhavi Naik about the possible reasons behind the increase in undernutrition among children and why it matters.You can follow Anirudh Kanisetti on Instagram: @aniryuddha(https://instagram.com/aniryuddha?igshid=1voj6h2aq6dpq)You can follow Sunila Dixit on Instagram: @sunilasdixit(https://instagram.com/sunilasdixit?igshid=7gcx1u76oovc)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

India's coronavirus infection tally crossed 3.4 million mark. As the country registered a single-day hike of 76,472 new cases, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday. The cumulative toll due to the virus reached 62,550 with 1,021 new deaths in the last 24 hours. The coronavirus infection case tally stands at 3,463,973 including 7,52,424 active cases and 2,648,999 cured. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support

India's coronavirus tally crossed the 32-lakh mark with 67,151 new cases. While 1,059 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The overall coronavirus infection count reached 3,234,475 including 7,07,267 active cases. While 2,467,759 cured and 59,449 deaths. Maharashtra has 1,66,239 active coronavirus infection cases, the highest in the country. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare suffers from a lack of clear division of responsibilities, a platform for inter-sectoral coordination and conflicts of interest. These weaknesses have become more apparent in the light of the pandemic, as the public health response has been anchored in the ICMR, which is primarily a research body. India needs an overhaul of the public health governance system which will have mechanisms for transparency and accountability. Anirudh talks to Sunila and Shambhavi about the changes that need to be brought into effect, which will improve the public health governance and thereby health outcomes and response to health emergencies in India.Read our discussion document here - https://takshashila.org.in/takshashila-discussion-document-reimagining-indias-public-health-governance-system/Check out our discussion on the ICMR's role in managing the pandemic here -https://takshashila.org.in/all-things-policy-a-covid-19-vaccine-made-in-india/You can follow Anirudh on twitter: @AKanisetti(https://twitter.com/AKanisetti)You can follow Sunila on twitter: @SunilaDixit(https://twitter.com/SunilaDixit)You can follow Shambhavi on twitter: @TheNaikMic(https://twitter.com/TheNaikMic)You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.

The highest-ever increase of 69,652 coronavirus infection cases. While 977 deaths were reported in India, in the last 24 hours. The coronavirus tally in the country rises to 2,836,926 including 6,86,395 active cases. With 2,096,665 cured and 53,866 deaths, said, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 58,794 patients were cured in last 24 hours. India scaled a new peak in daily testing as more than 9 lakh coronavirus infection tests. Conducted in the last 24 hours, informed Union Ministry of Health on Thursday. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support

In our latest podcast, JSI team members working on the Rapid Immunization Skill Enhancement (RISE) project discuss their experience piloting their digital training program for improving health workers' immunization knowledge and skills in India. The RISE training modules went online for use by health workers in March 2020, almost coinciding with the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The team shares the challenges & opportunities that a digital training platform has for continuing health workers' training even during a pandemic. This work is done for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India and funded by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance. Learn more about the RISE program and our immunization work: https://www.jsi.com/project/rapid-immunization-skill-enhancement-rise-in-india Check out a recent webinar from the RISE team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzEr-9zAUqI&feature=youtu.be

India's coronavirus infection death toll breached the 50,000 mark. As 941 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. The number of deaths due to the infection has reached 50,921. As many as 57,982 coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours across the country. Taking India's total coronavirus infection cases to 2,647,664 cases. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support

India on Thursday enrolled the highest single-day spike of 66,999 cases. While reported 942 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The nation's coronavirus infection tally touched 2,396,638. Including 6,53,622 active cases, 1,695,982 discharged and 47,033 deaths. Active coronavirus infection cases in Maharashtra stand at 1,47,820, the highest in the nation. Followed by Andhra Pradesh with 90,425 active cases. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support

India's total coronavirus cases hiked 968876 today. As a record 32695 fresh coronavirus cases were recorded in the last 24 hours. According to the data disclosed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The casualty toll went up to 24915, including 606 fatalities in the last 24 hours. Out of the total infection cases, 612814 have been healed, while 331146 are presently active. In the past 24 hours, 20783 victims were declared cured, taking India's recovery rate to 63.25 per cent. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latestnewssuno/support