Our COVID-19 Response Faculty Projects
D
uring the second year of the pandemic, South Asia has continued to be hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mittal Institute’s community of experts continues to play an active role in the response to the ongoing crisis, contributing research, oped writing and events to inform the situation.
The Lancet Citizens’ Commission (LCC) The Commission, which was launched in December 2020, is an ambitious, cross-sector endeavor to lay out a citizens’ roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. Through its website, events, and articles, the LCC has become a health information hub around key healthcare questions and needs, including COVID-19.
Select Writings from the LCC COVID-19 pandemic & children: Focus on mental health By Vikram Patel in Down to Earth “Two years on, it is explicitly clear that young people are the worst hit as far as mental health is concerned. In every survey published so far, younger groups have reported the worst mental health, particularly mood and anxiety symptoms.”
must benefit from the lessons of the past waves by strengthening the capacity for providing assured, timely and competent care at all levels, but especially so in primary care settings.”
Community Science Alliance (CSA) Launched in 2021 by Professors Satchit Balsari, this collaborative effort aims to counter misinformation with sci-
Covid-19: What Kind of Peace Accord Can We Negotiate With Virus and Variants This Year? By K Srinath Reddy, LCC Commissioner, for News18 “...we must improve our capacity for genomic surveillance to detect and evaluate new variants. Our health systems
Events and Seminars JUNE-JULY 2021 COVID-19 IN SOUTH ASIA – PRACTITIONER’S WORKSHOP SERIES Starting in June of 2021, the Mittal Institute, with the support of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Lancet Citizens’ Commission, organized a series of
panel discussions by leading scientists and frontline clinicians on the latest evidence-based updates for COVID-19 care. The goal through these talks was to assist with the management of COVID-19 and improvement of health outcomes in South Asia. The three-part series focused on:
PART 1: OXYGENATION AND VENTILATION: AT HOME AND IN THE HOSPITAL This session shared the latest updates on protocols for oxygenation and ventilation in COVID-19 patients, contextualized for resource-limited and rural environments.
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
