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Assessment of public health laboratory preparedness and response in WHO South-East Asia region during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and future directions.
Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia
December 2024
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
This Health Policy reviews the preparedness and response of public health laboratories in the WHO South-East Asia Region (SEAR) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a scoping review and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, the study identifies successes, challenges, and lessons learned from available literature and the perspective of senior laboratory leaders. Key themes include human resources, health information systems, diagnostic capacity, public risk communication, biosafety, biosecurity, funding, and laboratory network coordination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIUPS Physiology Education Workshop series in India: organizational mechanics, outcomes, and lessons.
Adv Physiol Educ
December 2020
Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Active learning promotes the capacity of problem solving and decision making among learners. Teachers who apply instructional processes toward active participation of learners help their students develop higher order thinking skills. Due to the recent paradigm shift toward adopting competency-based curricula in the education of healthcare professionals in India, there is an emergent need for physiology instructors to be trained in active-learning methodologies and to acquire abilities to promote these curriculum changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBuilding operational readiness for responding to emergencies in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
WHO South East Asia J Public Health
April 2020
World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has an essential role to play in supporting Member States to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies with public health consequences. Operational readiness for known and unknown hazards and emergencies requires a risk-informed and structured approach to building capacities within organizations such as WHO offices and national ministries of health. Under the flagship priority programme on emergency risk management of the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, a readiness training programme consisting of four modules was implemented during 2017-2018, involving staff from WHO country offices as well as from the regional office.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTackling typhoid fever in South Asia: lessons from Vietnam.
Lancet Glob Health
October 2019
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal, Patan Academy of Health Science, Kathmandu, PO Box 3596, Nepal.
Lessons for the Health-care Practitioner from Buddhism.
Indian J Endocrinol Metab
January 2018
Department of Obstetrics, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, Haryana, India.
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with the practice of medicine, both being concerned in their own way in the alleviation and prevention of human suffering. However, while the connection between Buddhism and healthcare has long been noted, there is scarce literature on how Buddhist philosophy can guide health-care practitioners in their professional as well as personal lives. In the sutras, we find analogies that describe the Buddha as a doctor, knowledge of Dharma as the treatment, and all lay people as patients.
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