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Host Academic Supervisors: Prashanth N S, Assistant Director - Research, Health Equity Cluster Lead & Faculty, Institute of Public Health (IPH), Bangalore and Nora Engel, Associate Professor, Athena Institute and Network Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Co-Project Supervisors:
Ayo Wahlberg, Head of Department, Institute for Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
ChandanĀ Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Policy and Management Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS)
Dharmaveer Shetty, Coordinator, One Health India
Advisors:
Giridhara R Babu, Professor and Head - Life Course Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Natalie Marie Gulsrud, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen
Pialy Ghanekar, Science Communication Coach and Consultant; Founder, Cell Savvy Group
Siddharth Kankaria, Communications and Program Coordinator, Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machines, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Contributors:
Bindu Nishal, Vice President, Agri-Innovation and Lead, International One Health Incubator, Sustainability Innovation Centre (SINC), IKP Knowledge Park
Vishal Sanghvi, CEO and Smart Life Evangelist, Cybersetu India Pvt. Ltd.
To develop a toolkit for an effective citizens forum that capacitates preparedness of communities to prevent vector-borne outbreaks (starting with Dengue) for better mitigation of disease.
Toolkit of guidelines/recommendations on developing or using existing community engagement platforms/fora for addressing dengue prevention at a decentralized ward level in BengaluruĀ
Testing the acceptability and feasibility of the toolkit in the target ward with key stakeholdersĀ
Co-create a plan for the toolkit implementation in two selected community engagement platforms in Bengaluru