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.
Peninsula Corporate Park,
Lower Parel, Mumbai
India
Active Case Findings and Patient Retention in Tuberculosis Care
Manvi Poddar, a product design graduate from the Indian School of Design and Innovation, Parsons, worked with the India Research Center on a project that aims to use research findings, as they relate to the role of health visitors in active case findings and patient retention. As a part of her graduation thesis, she recommended an assistive intervention that can help reduce the workload of health visitors through a systematic analysis of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme 2017–2015 and it’s web-enabled patient management system for TB control–NIKSHAY. The intervention proposes the redesign of the features in NIKSHAY; and expands its scope to accelerate a collaborative effort that empowers, educates and facilitates the needs of patients, health visitors, and the community. She was mentored by Dr. Sarthak Das of Harvard Chan School.