Wednesday Colloquia

Public Health Needs Three-way Marriages

by Dr. Anurag Agrawal (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi)

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR, Mumbai ( AG - 66 (Lecture Theatre) )
Description
Public health and implementation research occupies an interdisciplinary space that lies between Medical, Biological, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences. Interdisciplinary marriages remain uncommon and multidisciplinary marriages even more so. I will discuss recent efforts where we used information technology, systems biology visualisation tools, and Bayesian frameworks to gain novel understanding of public health in India, while creating a framework for integrating transparent and effective healthcare delivery with big data collection for tomorrow's medicine