Science and Community: One Health at SISF 2025, Puducherry (24 January, 2025)
As part of the Science and Community-One Health series, we partnered with VITM and Directorate of Education, Govt of Puducherry, along with their ground partners during the Southern India Science Fest, Jan 21–25, 2025 which had participation from across 6 southern India states. along with their organizing partners. The participants were school students from 6th to 10th grade and educators, who had won at district level, city-level and at state levels. They had assembled for the final competition, displaying models and working principals on a wide range of scientific topics, including public health, environmental health, and STEM subjects.
On Jan 24, APSI-India team mentors Dr. Mansi Malik, Ph.D, Dr. Shivranjani Moharir and Dr. Sufia Sadaf (Ph.D.) spoke to about 400 participants and gave detailed talks about APSI's ongoing clinical surveillance, wastewater surveillance and capacity-building, outreach and role of community in mitigating rising public health issues such as AMR, vector borne diseases, followed by an 1.5 hour educational activity session to re-enforce the learning.
Outreach Lead: Dr. Sufia Sadaf, NCBS
Written by :-
Dr. Sufia Sadaf,
Program Manager,
The Rockefeller Foundation–Alliance for Pathogen Surveillance Innovations (RF-APSI)
NCBS-TIFR
Bangalore