New Water Strategy for India

Speaker: Prof. Mihir Shah, Distinguished Professor, Shiv Nadar University; and former Member of the Planning Commission
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

Contrary to popular belief, the current water crisis in India is amenable to solutions that are both reasonably simple and practically implementable. Based on a radically new understanding of development, this water strategy is absolutely essential, given the emerging reality on the ground in this era of climate change, as also our growing understanding of water and its place in the development process. The talk will summarise the key elements of this water strategy and demonstrate how its implementation can be carried out, based on well-established best practice proofs-of-concept on the ground

 

 

 

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save her Husband from a Deadly Superbug

 

Launch of a book co-authored by Steffanie Strathdee and Tom Patterson

 

 

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, South-East Asia Region, World Health Organisation

 

 

 

Followed by a lecture

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Steffanie Strathdee, an infectious disease epidermiologist, renowned for her research on the intersection of HIV and drug use. She is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences & Harold Simon Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego

 

 

 

Chair: Prof. Balram Bhargava, Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research

 

 

 

Dr. Strathdee will present the case study of her husband, Dr. Tom Patterson, who was stricken with a pan-resistant bacterial infection and was rescued with intravenous phage therapy as well as others who have been similarly treated successfully in other countries

 

 

 

Panel Discussion: Charting a Path Towards Bacteriophage Therapy

 

Chair: Prof. Balram Bhargava

 

 

 

Discussants: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee; Dr. Thomas Petterson, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Health Sciences, University of California, San Diego; Dr. Sanjay Chhibber, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Panjab University and President, Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India; and Prof. Randeep Guleria, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

 

 

 

Moderator: Dr. Urmi Bajpai, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Science, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi and Co-creator, International Bacteriophage Research Consortium

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Open Health Laboratories Systems; and The International Bacteriophage Research Consortium)