The SAGE Impact Leaders will be both Indian and International students registered at participating institutes. For information on the Junior and Senior Ambassadors, please see: https://sites.google.com/echonetwork.in/sagereport2023/home. The PhD SAGE Fellows will be selected through National and International calls in early 2024. The projects will be supported for three years (a typical PhD fellowship period).
Host Academic Supervisor: Prashanth N S, Assistant Director - Research, Health Equity Cluster Lead & Faculty, Institute of Public Health (IPH), Bangalore
Co-Project Supervisors:
Chandan Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Policy and Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS)
Dharmaveer Shetty, Global Wildlife Networks Coordinator and Secretariat, Emerging Diseases Group, World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
Advisors:
Giridhara R Babu, Professor and Head - Life Course Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Pialy Ghanekar, Science Communication Coach and Consultant; Founder, Cell Savvy Group
Siddharth Kankaria, Communications and Program Coordinator, Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Contributors:
Bindu Nishal, Vice President, Agri-Innovation and Lead, International One Health Incubator, Sustainability Innovation Centre (SINC), IKP Knowledge Park
Vishal Sanghvi, CEO and Smart Life Evangelist, Cybersetu India Pvt. Ltd.
To develop a toolkit for an effective Citizen Forum for better mitigation and preparation plans for recurring floods, waste management, and dengue in Ward 50
To assess current approaches and impacts of floods, waste and dengue in the ward
Outline a stakeholder map that looks at values, priorities, requirements, available resources
Trust-building exercises with the stakeholders
Citizen science for monitoring of water, waste, and disease parameters in collaboration with other components
Testing and recommendations for implementation
Map of environmental factors (water and waste) and disease hotspots
Stakeholder map for the ward with respect to Dengue
Toolkit for establishing a citizen forum
BBMP
State monitoring centres
Organisations working on ground
Residents
Field experts
Network of relevant NGOs, institutions, community experts
Existing datasets (i.e. dengue incidence data, climatic information including temperature, precipitation, and humidity data.