UN Space and Global Health Expert Group

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Dr. Ajit Babu, CAGH Director was at the UN, Vienna in 2017 as a member of the Expert Group on Space and Global Health, which is an official UN group that meets each year as a side meeting to a General Assembly meeting. He had the great pleasure of being invited by the Indian delegation to be seated with them while the Assembly was in session. Represented at the Expert Group meeting were UNOOSA as well as NASA and space agencies of France and Japan along with national representatives from Germany, Canada, Russia and Switzerland. CAGH was the only NGO having representation at this conclave. Dr. Chandana Unnithan, CAGH Fellow, participated in 2018 and she has subsequently been nominated as an official national representative of Australia to the Expert Group. 
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Ajit with the German delegate Prof. Engelbert Niehaus and Committee Chair Pascal Michel, Chief Scientific Officer for Public Health Agency, Canada


​Fuzzy modelling of Aedes mosquito abundance funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

CAGH developed an advanced fuzzy-logic based model for predicting Aedes mosquito abundance along with a framework for a geospatial public health network.
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​The project was successfully completed and key findings have been published in 2019 in the journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment from Springer. 

The citation is: 

​Babu, A.N., Niehaus, E., Shah, S. et al. Smartphone geospatial apps for dengue control, prevention, prediction, and education: MOSapp, DISapp, and the mosquito perception index (MPI). Environ Monit Assess (2019) 191(Suppl 2): 393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7425-0

A copy of the article can be accessed under the publications tab on this site. 

The project has been supported by the expertise of International research fellows /collaborators from Germany, (led by Prof. Engelbert Niehaus, University of Koblenz-Landau), and Australia (Dr Chandana Unnithan, Torrens University Australia).
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What does our logo stand for?

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CAGH is about collaboration across boundaries - social, geographic or conceptual. We are all one, aiming for a better quality of life, and a safer planet. Our logo, which tries to capture these principles, was designed by the students of the 2010 MPH class at the Achutha Menon Centre, Trivandrum, India and thereafter, refined by Samrat Gupta.