India Research Center
The India Research Center, based in Mumbai, serves as a hub for Harvard Chan School’s research projects, educational programs, and knowledge translation and communication work across India.
Email
irc@hsph.harvard.edu
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Location
Dextrus, 6th floor,
Peninsula Towers,
Peninsula Corporate Park,
Lower Parel, Mumbai 400013
India
Community Mobilization for Nutrition Mission
- Ananya Awasthi, assistant director of the India Research Center, spoke about the importance of “Jan Andolan”, or community mobilization for the national nutrition mission, at the 2019 Poshan (nutrition) Innovation Awards, which were hosted by Outlook Media in New Delhi.
- Awasthi described the key inputs from the stakeholder consultation held with the Child Development Program Officers at the Center; applied learnings from the science of social and behavioral change communication for nutrition, and shared contextual examples of community-led practices that can be used as platforms to sustain the demand for improved health and nutrition services.