Vikash R. Keshri, MD, PhD
@docVRK
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Doctor I Public Health I Health Policy & SystemsI Associate Professor @JindalGlobalUNI IAdj. Sr. Lecturer @UNSWMedicine I Think Global Act Local I Personal view
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Joined July 2010
#GlobalHealth is in crisis The Global South Actors must take control to move from rhetoric to action! #Gandhi - his life, struggle & principles of #ahimsa & #satyagraha (truth-force) can truly inspire this Here I share my views on this https://t.co/aTOGhXD8vb
#Decolonisation
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Emergency care lies at the intersection of clinical care & public health, vital, yet overlooked. Grateful to Prof. @KateDouglass @GWtweets for sharing insights on building India’s emergency medicine capacity & health workforce. #HealthSystems #PublicHealth #India #Emergency
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"As Bihar heads into a pivotal election, voters face a stark choice between maintaining a status quo of welfare dependency or embracing transformative governance reforms. With the State grappling with the highest rate of multidimensional poverty in India, the electorate’s
thehindu.com
Bihar's election poses a critical choice: sustain welfare dependency or embrace transformative governance reforms to combat poverty.
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Dear @Bajaj_Finance @Bajaj_Finserv team, I am again getting multiple calls from multiple numbers, asking for a loan, overdraft facility. I do not need any of these and want to stop calling me. Earlier, it was stopped after your intervention, but yet again @sanjivrbajaj
@docVRK Hi, We will have this checked for you. Kindly help us with few details like your contact number, the number from which you received the call and the product for which you received the call via DM so that we can assist you further. Regards, Team BFL https://t.co/f6z64H9MzB
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New #commentary @SushilaT36099 @GlobalHealthBMJ asks: Can global health truly be just without moral clarity? https://t.co/mp8DYwRcHF
@Dhananjayasha19 @AnantBhan @DrKhan_do @BestOrthoDr @Mundra08 @docVRK @keithmartinmd @RantingSid @juliomayo @smkaty @Anuraag_Shukla
gh.bmj.com
Global health is an interdisciplinary field focused on the improvement of health equity and outcomes across the world’s populations, addressing transnational health challenges through cooperative...
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2 years ago, Chhattisgarh’s Mitanin program was taken over by the NHM. Now, confusion & neglect define the transition, with no payments, clarity, wages or stability. Read @shreyaraman18’s report on Mitanin’s fight for wages, regularisation and dignity. 🔗 https://t.co/oXPVnoEl3K
behanbox.com
Lack of clarity and delayed wages has plagued the state’s community healthcare worker programme for over a year now. Workers are leading a fragmented fight in demanding better wages and regularisat...
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📢 #Publication from year 1 (2024-25: #SORTIT) of @icmr_nie TB SORT IT course 2024-26 @thevishnu56 and team from #Chhattisgarh recommend prioritization of early direct benefit transfer and early foodbaskets among people with #TB who are severely/ very severely undernourished
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The geography of death in India’s #DEG tragedies is disturbingly consistent.Victims are poor, rural, voiceless. These syrups are bought by the poor coz they are cheap.The manufacturers are typically small firms w minimal oversight, targeting states with lax procurement standards.
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Honoured to join the panel on #Healthcare Revolution: India’s Path to Universal Healthcare Access” at the Jindal Policy Conclave @JindalGlobalUNI Key takeaway: Strengthening public primary healthcare is central to advancing UHC in India. #UHC #HealthForAll #PHC #RightoHealth
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📢 #Publication from year 1 (2024-25: #SORTIT) of ICMR-NIE TB SORT IT course 2024-26 @Chetanya_Malik of @SangwariSurguja suggests the need to decentralize household contact investigation for #TB and improve data-based program monitoring in Chhattisgarh
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Honoured to take my first speaking & chairing role at @JindalGlobalUni 🌿 Spoke on the health effects of Indian cannabis & chaired “Medicinal Cannabis: Stories from the Field.” A unique, multidisciplinary & thought-provoking session grateful to @JindalPublicHlth!
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Dear #GlobalHealth fellows, How do you think #MahatmaGandhi would have approached power inequity & #decolonization movement in #GlobalHealth ? #decolonizeGH #globalhealthmatters
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Indian Council of Medical Research @ICMRDELHI has come up with a new comprehensive scale to measure RESEARCH IMPACT Methods are described in this piece in IJMR by the DG Dr. Rajiv Bahal 👇 https://t.co/jSx6mJcjP2
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India's demographic dividend - an asset of time bomb? Very thoughtful read👇
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Please read our new @LancetGH paper led by @bayinganaa — "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" https://t.co/vNyriAazme We went from "complaints on knowledge practices" to "expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers".
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