Author: daktre
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Ecologising disease control: case of Kyasanur Forest Disease
Based on work I am involved with in a research consortium that’s aiming at leveraging the inter-sectorality & inter-disciplinarity offered by OneHealth approaches, here is a longish Twitter thread that cherry-picks key aspects of the paper we wrote along with some of my own reflections. The paper can be downloaded from PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases…
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(Key)stoned
In 2015, the WHO Alliance for Health Policy & Systems Research and Public Health Foundation of India had partnered to set up India’s first effort at building capacity in health policy & systems research (HPSR) through the KEYSTONE course. Half a decade later, I had the opportunity to join some lovely people from several institutions…
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Anamalai doodles
Have never sketched. Did not think I could. High school drawing class was misery and perhaps played no insignificant part in this. Year-end slow-down unrelated to COVID-19 helped bring some pause to an otherwise tumultuous year. Two doodles from the hills.
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The hand and the mind
A chemical soup churns an ancient recipe,a salad of acids nuceic,a pattern so oft flawed,a twist & a turn,livin’ up to the font of a God? A nurture awaits the soup,hands not always gentle, words not often soothing,parsing the salad with a shifting key,an encryption undefined, unbroken. A million years of evolution,moments, minutes and years…
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Pointing to myself
I can press like on one and retweet another with ease; practising my likes & retweets requires grit and strength that I am still trying to gather; tired of pointing out everything that’s wrong with the world and realise that I’m complicit to what I point…