Future Health System’s Young Researchers’ Grants

Agency : DFID,UKand JohnsHopkinsUniversity

Joining a tough competition, three junior researchers from IIHMR had individually won small research grants from the FHS consortium head office at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University in 2013. The primary objective of these three grants was to develop research capacity of young researchers from the partner institutions of the FHS consortium. The following were the researchers and their research topic:

Upasona Ghosh: Effect of women’s social network on mother and child health in women-headed households: a case study of Indian Sundarbans.
Lalitha SwatiVardevu: Assessing the need for psycho-social care for children in the Sundarbans.
DivyaKBhati:Reality of girl child health rights in the arid zones of Rajasthan

The research activities of each of the above grants have been completed and the research products including a brief report and a publishable paper for each grant are under preparation for wider dissemination.


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