In May 2024, Dr Siddhartha Mandal has been invited as a member for providing guidance & technical support in the area of Heat Related Illness and Death Surveillance under the National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH) a Technical Expert Group under the chairmanship of DGHS& Director, NCDC. This is a follow-up to […]
The Consortium for Climate, Health and AIr Pollution Research in India (CHAIR-India) published evidence on the impact of heatwaves on daily mortality in various Indian cities. The study found that longer and more intense heatwaves were associated with an increased risk of daily mortality. Milder heatwaves also resulted in a higher burden of heatwave – related […]
Dr. Siddhartha Mandal won The LMIC Best Abstract Award for “Long-term exposure to PM2.5 associated with decline in kidney function in a large urban cohort in two Indian cities” at the 35th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). The ISEE 2023 Conference was held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from September 17-21, 2023. […]
The Consortium for Climate, Health and AIr Pollution Research in India (CHAIR-India) and GEOHealth Hub for Research and Capacity Building (GEOHealth HEALS) are organising a Short course on Methods and Modelling in Environmental Health from May 29-June 2, 2023, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM in Delhi-NCR, India. Faculty:– Dr. Siddhartha Mandal PhD in Biostatistics, Senior Research Scientist, […]
The Consortium for Climate, Health and Air Pollution Research in India (CHAIR-India) Stakeholder Meeting was held on December 1, 2022 at the The Metropolitan, New Delhi, India. Participants joined the deliberations in-person and virtually. Some key highlights from this meeting are shared below. A context-setting welcome by Dr. Poornima Prabhakaran was followed by a short introduction […]
It is an honour to announce that our colleague Dr. Siddhartha Mandal, one of the developers of our spatiotemporal model, earned the award of best LMIC abstract titled “Assessing daily PM2.5 at every square kilometer of India over 2008-2020 using a machine learning framework” at the 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental […]
CHAIR-India team is working to bring out relevant knowledge both specific to India as well as generic knowledge for other similar environments that may face similar challenges under climate change. With that notion, the Consortium invites all the key stakeholders for a meaningful dialogue focused on health effects of air pollution and rising temperature in […]
GEOHealth Health Effects of Selected Environmental Exposomes Across the Life CourSe (HEALS)-India in collaboration with the Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Karolinska Institutet are happy to announce the in-person course on Environmental Epidemiology and Cardiovascular Health in 25-29 November 2022. […]