ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA is a three-year international research project aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic, led by the University of Verona and involving 26 partners (extending to a wider network of 37 partners) from 15 countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Congo, France, Gabon, Germany, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Venezuela. The project is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the ERAvsCORONA Action Plan which was developed jointly by Commission services and national authorities. Read More
MOMI
GARBH-Ini (interdisciplinary Group on Advanced Research on BirtH outcome-DBT INdia Initiative) had been invited to join the Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (MOMI) Consortium in 2018, which is an international group of leading experts on maternal, new-born, and child health, and innovative ‘omics’ technologies working together to accelerate solutions for adverse pregnancy outcomes and optimize health for mothers and infants in low-and-middle income countries.
With its mandate to carry out extensive omics assays (genetics, metabolomics, proteomics) on biospecimen collected in different studies across low and middle-income countries (AMANHI cohorts in South East Asia and Africa and GAPPS cohort in Africa) to investigate the clinical and biological risk factors and predictors of preterm birth, stillbirth, preeclampsia and IUGR.
Equifinance
EQUIFINANCE aims to measure health gains, financial risk protection, and equity impact of neonatal and child health care interventions in four studies implemented in India. This program was initiated in collaboration with Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS)-UiB, CISMAC, and CHRD-SAS. Two of the four work packages will be led and coordinated by Dr. Wadhwa’s group. Equity RCT: In one work package they propose to evaluate the equity and financial household impact of the facility-based ACTION 3 trial Equity high-risk cohort: As another objective, the team will evaluate the equity and financial household impact of high-risk infant follow-up at a secondary health care level hospital.
Global Scales for Early Development (GSED)
We are identified as only Indian site (among 12 countries) to be a part for creation of Global norms & standards of qualitative scores of development.
The program is coordinated by WHO and aims to develop Global norms of early childhood development And develop standards for On-Track vs. Off-Track Development.
GARBH-Ini babies identified with minimal constrains as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled and followed at 3 time points till 36 months of age.
Contributing to this program will not only allow us to be able to contribute to the global Data but would also help us develop public health tool to indicate policy of how the youngest children in their country are developing.