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📢 We completed the 5th program in the #SamarthaTarabeti series, capacity-building and training workshop for ASHA workers, health inspectors & officers, Bommanahalli zone!
🗓️ May 13, 2025, 2:30pm to 5:30pm, National Centre for Biological Sciences Campus
Organizers: National Centre for Biological Sciences | Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, India under the aegis of The Rockefeller Foundation-APSI-India outreach,
Outreach partner: BeST - Bengaluru Science and Technology Cluster.
Ground partners: Molecular Solutions Care Health | Swasti | Precision Health Platform | Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) | Department of Health and Family Welfare Services - Govt. of Karnataka | Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum
#wastewatersurveillance #vectorsurveillance #diseaseoutbreakmonitoring #diseasepreparedness #novelsurveillancetechnologies #vectorcontrol #AMReducation #diseasemitigation
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Capacity-building and refresher training for ground health workers (ASHA workers) designed in Kannada language and English. ASHA work is crucial and plays a central role in community level public health surveillance, their contributions in disease-surveillance, data entry, vector-monitoring for diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, malaria, infectious and non-infectious diseases, fever reporting, aligning with APSI’s outreach efforts for knowledge sharing, education and awareness at grass-root levels along with training health technicians, municipal organization personnel
The workshop aims to provide training for capacity building to the ground-health workers to make them aware about disease-surveillance, including fever monitoring, vector-borne diseases, seasonal and infectious vs non-infectious diseases, types of pathogens and their role in disease, harmful impacts of unregulated usage of antibiotics and AMR, healthy community practices to mitigate/reduce AMR burden and incidences, data entry and digital data reporting. These training modules will be imparted through a combination of expert lectures, interactive and engaging group activities, hands-on curated activities guided by volunteers and hands-on exhibits for experiential learning and long-term impact. The scientific concepts will be presented through simplified contents, films, extempore and group-deliberations, employing creative theatre tools and performing arts. With this training, the ASHA workers will receive first-hand knowledge and scientific tools.
APSI leads and mentors: Rakesh Mishra | LS SHASHIDHARA | Dr. Sufia Sadaf (Ph.D.) | Mansi Malik, Ph.D | Sunita Swain PhD
Outreach Lead: Dr. Sufia Sadaf
Partners: Dr. Sreeparna Samanta | Dr. Suresh Kumar Mendem | Jyoti Mehra | Sajoo Bhaskaran | Varsha Shridhar, PhD
Volunteers: Sai Disha K, Priyanka B., Yukta Rachannavar, Priyadarshini Mohapatra, PRAJAKTA JATHAR, @Ritika, @YesuRaja, @Antony Selva, @Rangappa, Chethan Kumar R., Soumya M, SOUMYA GOPAL JOSHI, @Chaitali Ghosh, @Joydeep Roy
Program Schedule 5th workshop: Samartha tarabeti May 13, 2025 at NCBS, 2:30PM - 5:30PM
Expert talks: 2:30PM to 3:30 PM (Dasheri)
Welcome remarks & context-setting - Capacity-building: Dr. Sufia Sadaf & Sai Disha K, NCBS
Talks:
Rising Antimicrobial resistance, AMR, vector-surveillance and community involvement to mitigate: Dr. Mansi Malik, Scientist, TIGS
Grass-root involvement and impactful contributions for ASHA work: ASHA mentor, BBMP
Vector entomology: lessons from Mosquitoes: Dr. Sunita Swain, Insectary Manager, TIGS
Hands-on exhibits: 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM (1st floor SLC)
Hands-on exhibits, disease-vectors: mosquitoes, larvae, breeding sites – Dr. Sunita and her team, TIGS
Exhibits by Dr. Mansi’s team – TIGS
Team activities: 4:15 PM to 4:30 PM, Dasheri
Led by Dr. Sufia Sadaf with team volunteers:
Sai Disha K, Apoorva MV, Priyanka Bhavsar, Samruddhi Walaskar, Priyadarshini Mohapatra, Antony Selvakumar A, Prajakta Jathar, Rangappa, Yesu Raja
Activity 1: Group quiz and learning games: focused on vector-borne disease surveillance, hotspot-identification, fever reporting dengue prevention strategies, outreach for Grass-root educators for public health awareness.
Prize distribution, felicitation, certificate distribution
High tea and wrap up