India Research Center
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.