CAPHER India Initiative: AIIMS, IIT Delhi to study impact of air pollution on health

New Delhi: AIIMS New Delhi and IIT Delhi have joined hands for a research initiative that will suggest and examine the solutions for air pollution and its impact on health in India.

The researchers from top institutions will collaborate and study the research gaps with an aim to bring the brightest minds and build a research network to study the various aspects of air pollution.

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The initiative is called CAPHER India and was inaugurated on Tuesday by AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria and Prof Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi.

Dr Harshal R Salve, Additional Professor at Centre for Community Medicine AIIMS and Dr Sgnik Dey, Associate Professor at IIT Delhi are chosen as co-ordinators for the CAPHER India project.

The Secretariate of CAPHER is located at the Centre for Community Medicine in AIIMS, New Delhi. It consists of a Secretariat, Steering committee and an Expert Advisory Group with major activities focusing on capacity-building, advocacy and research communication and collaborations.

According to the joint statement released by both the institutions, CAPHER-INDIA aims to build a dedicated network focused on air pollution and health effects research in India and to bring together teams of Indian researchers from various scientific disciplines.

The initiative also hopes to develop a strategy to advance the state of the science regarding air pollution and health effects in India.

"CAPHER -India will bring together researchers from exposure assessment and health side so that research gaps and policy level science-driven solutions for addressing air pollution can be brought out in India. This is a unique multidisciplinary sustainable collaboration between AIIMS and IIT Delhi," Salve said.

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