precision health – precision health

Who we are?

Precision Health Platform is a public health preparedness platform catering to marginalized through comprehensive yet decentralized disease surveillance systems and intelligence gathering through community participation to enable the development and utilization of a real-time, data-driven decision support system in urban planning and public health management while keeping equity at the center.

The result of this sophisticated system is simple: establish an early warning system that communities and city governments can use to strengthen their response and improve the overall public health ecosystem, thereby creating a lasting impact for the most marginalized communities in these cities. The approach, at its core, believes that climate, health, and social inequalities are highly interrelated and thus need to be solved in an integrated, One Health fashion.

Various health threats posed by climate change, including heat-related illnesses, vector-borne diseases, and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases due to extreme weather events, are better understood with Precision Health Platform’s geospatial intelligence in combination with community-driven health data. An evidence base for climate-related health solutions is being prioritized, and our risk communication and community engagement capabilities are being employed to effect change regarding climate-mediated health risks for vulnerable communities.

The change we want to bring

Increased number of Healthy Days for vulnerable communities through improved preparedness and responsiveness to climate risks.

We follow an approach rooted in impactful communication and the philosophy of transparent and uniform data usage.

We envision that the platform will increase the number of Healthy Days enjoyed by vulnerable individuals. As an early warning system, we will reduce the number of sick days faced by our communities, and allow vulnerable individuals to protect their lives and livelihoods.

Precision Action Towards Climate and Health

Innovative tools for building action-linked, hyper localized early warning systems

Precision Action Towards Climate and Health or PATCH derives its vital principle from the Precision Health platform - localized evidence for localized action.

It adopts a platform-oriented strategy that extends beyond simple aggregation and visualization of datasets to include a diverse group of experts, facilitating sense-making, and developing risk communication strategies to support stakeholders in disseminating warning signals and empowering the decision-makers by providing actionable insights.

Our Solutions

We use multiple tools of disease monitoring that are complementary in nature so that we can triangulate and solidify evidence for health systems strengthening.

Wastewater Based Epidemiology

City-wide surveillance for detection of pathogens, pollutants and pharmaceuticals in collaboration with local administrations
Participatory surveillance

Leveraging volunteer community participation for providing first hand data and information about their health and well-being.
Event-based surveillance

In-house developed automated tool to gather data on latest infectious disease & climate-mediated health risk intelligence.
Intelligence Communication

Communicating the intelligence generated through surveillance platforms using tailored sensemaking messaging and IEC materials
Geographical Information Systems

Geographic Information System mapping to identify vulnerable communities at risk from impending natural as well as health events.
Triangulation Intelligence

Integrating and triangulating multiple data sources on health and climate risk indicators of the city for comprehensive visual sense-making of a situation.

Finally, the triangulated data generated from these tools is used to deploy risk communications and community engagement with policymakers at different levels of government and with community partners. This includes sensemaking workshops, capacity-building sessions using IEC materials and health communication products and feedback processing from communities. This is our value addition as a responsible, community-oriented early warning system.