APSI-India is proud to take part in the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2025, New Delhi. Aruna Panda, Program Director, APSI-India presented the case studies and ongoing environmental surveillance work towards strengthening timely mitigation strategies for public health.
The meetings lasted April 25–27, covering discussions and real-world success stories across building resilient health systems, policies and collaborative approach for a unified front to tackle and reduce disease burden.
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Meetings website: https://lnkd.in/gW6XTicJ
APSI Team: Aradhita Baral | Anurag Agrawal | Rakesh Mishra | LS Shashidhara | Vinay Nandicoori | Aruna Panda | Dr. Sufia Sadaf (Ph.D.)
Gates Foundation, World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office (WHO SEARO), and Swasti co-hosted a panel discussion on Wastewater Surveillance (WWS) at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting on April 26, bringing together public health leaders and innovators to discuss how wastewater surveillance can evolve from a crisis-response tool into a core component of national and regional health systems.
Moderated by Dr. Angela Chaudhuri (Swasti), the discussion highlighted real-world examples of how WWS is being deployed not just for COVID-19, but also for pathogens like typhoid, hepatitis, mpox, dengue, and others. Key presentations by Dr. Karin Haar (WHO SEARO) and Dr. Aruna Panda (Alliance for Pathogen Surveillance Innovations-India) showcased regional frameworks and predictive strategies rooted in #environmental data.
Panelists included: Dr. Madhvi Joshi, Dr. Dilip Abraham, Dr. Vincent Junxiong Pang, Patipat Susumpao, Dr. Varsha Shridhar, PhD, and Eloise Todd.
The panel emphasized that while much has been achieved, more can be done to institutionalize WWS, enhance data usability, and foster multisectoral partnerships.
The session concluded with a call for greater investment in #collaborative infrastructure to ensure that wastewater #surveillance becomes a sustained and scalable element of global health systems.