Published on in Vol 4, No 4 (2018): Oct-Dec

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Establishing a Demographic, Development and Environmental Geospatial Surveillance Platform in India: Planning and Implementation

Establishing a Demographic, Development and Environmental Geospatial Surveillance Platform in India: Planning and Implementation

Establishing a Demographic, Development and Environmental Geospatial Surveillance Platform in India: Planning and Implementation

Shikha Dixit   1 * , GradDip (Geoinformatics), PhD ;   Narendra K Arora   2 * , MD, MMSc ;   Atiqur Rahman   3 , MSc, PhD ;   Natasha J Howard   4, 5 , BHSc (Hons), PhD ;   Rakesh K Singh   1 , MSW ;   Mayur Vaswani   1 , BTech ;   Manoja K Das   1 , MD ;   Faruqueuddin Ahmed   6 , MD ;   Prashant Mathur   7 , DCH, DNB, PhD ;   Nikhil Tandon   8 , MD, PhD ;   Rajib Dasgupta   9 , MPH, PhD ;   Sanjay Chaturvedi   10 , MD ;   Jaishri Jethwaney   11 , PhD ;   Suresh Dalpath   12 , GradDip(PHN) ;   Rajendra Prashad   13 , MBBS ;   Rakesh Kumar   14 , MD ;   Rakesh Gupta   15 , PhD ;   Laurette Dube   16 , MBA, MPS, PhD ;   Mark Daniel   17, 18 , MSc, PhD

1 Research, SOMAARTH Demographic, Development and Environmental Surveillance Site, The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi, India

2 Research, Epidemiology, The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi, India

3 Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

4 Sansom Institute for Health Research, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

5 South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia

6 Academics Department, Aditya Diagnostic & Hospital, Dibrugarh, India

7 National Cancer Registry Program, National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bangalore, India

8 Department of Endocrinology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

9 Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

10 Department of Community Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

11 Department of Research, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi, India

12 Department of Health, Panchkula, India

13 Office of Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, Palwal, India

14 Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India

15 Office of Chief Minister, Chandigarh, India

16 McGill Center for the Convergence of Health and Economics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

17 Centre for Research and Action in Public Health, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

18 Department of Medicine, St. Vincent’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

*these authors contributed equally

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