The Indian Alliance for Public Health Preparedness is India’s first, multi-sectoral collaboration that provides a platform of diverse stakeholders for policy shaping, research, and knowledge sharing for environmental surveillance as a tool for public health preparedness.
By centering health equity in urban cities, the Alliance aims to bring the discourse and effectiveness of environmental surveillance to the state and national level public health system for evidence-based decision-making. The Alliance builds on efforts in Environmental surveillance in relation to pathogenic infectious diseases, illicit opioid use, antimicrobial resistance, and the role of open-source data.
The Alliance is currently anchored by Precision Health Platform, a public health preparedness platform that caters to the marginalized through comprehensive, decentralized disease surveillance systems and intelligence gathering through community participation, geospatial analysis, and other tools.
Values and Principles
To strive for urban resilience and health equity, the Alliance holds itself accountable to practice the following values and principles. We aspire to start a national-level conversation for environmental surveillance by centering these values at all levels of the Alliance’s work.
Collaboration Norms Between Alliance Members
The following are the collaboration norms discussed and drafted in partnership with Alliance Members
HARNESSING THE COLLECTIVE FOR HEALTH PREPAREDNESS
Bringing diverse stakeholders together to align, build on, and amplify the message of environmental surveillance for health preparedness and equity.
RESPECTING AND LEVERAGING DIVERSITY
Work with mutual respect and leverage the diversity that exists within this network in terms of people, organisations, and areas of work, to make a stronger impact.
BUILDING TRUSTED PARTNERSHIPS
The Alliance seeks to build partnerships based on shared values, led by trust in each other and the network.
DRIVEN BY CURIOSITY
Members approach our collective work with an intellectual curiosity that is grounded in improving foundational health outcomes for all.
SELF-DIRECTED PARTICIPATION
While the network seeks to engender a spirit of collaboration and partnership, participation is voluntary and self-initiated out of a sense of collective purpose.
SHARING WITH ATTRIBUTION
Sharing knowledge, connections, and research to leverage our collective resources more effectively, while attributing the contributors of resources.
ACKNOWLEDGING THE ALLIANCE
Acknowledging
the Alliance with
attribution in
shared
endeavours.
ETHICAL & RESPONSIBLE DATA PRACTICES
The use of research findings and data will happen only with consent, and within data privacy norms while respecting and recognizing authorship and contribution.
What We Do
POLICY SHAPING
POLICY SHAPING
Engage with national, state, and municipal governments to build momentum for the adoption, implementation, and regulation of environmental surveillance.
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
With the expertise of researchers, academics, and scientists the Alliance will identify opportunities for new research, facilitate collaborations, and build a body of evidence for environmental surveillance as a tool for public health.
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION
Create awareness and educate stakeholders on the relevance, effectiveness, and efficiency of environmental surveillance for health equity.
