Ashish Joshi
Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Apeksha Mewani
Health and Behavior Studies, Columbia University's Teachers College, New York, NY, United States
Srishti Arora
Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society, New Delhi, India
Ashoo Grover
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
Keywords:
COVID-19, India, SMAART RAPID tracker, public health, public policy
Abstract
The purpose of this article is two pronged; first, to identify and report public health implications of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and second, to report challenges uniquely faced by the citizens of India from a population health perspective. We have done both while closely examining epidemiological data that is accessible via SMAART's RAPID Tracker. This policy informatics platform is a live database aimed to track the geospatial spread of the COVID-19 outbreak and policy actions globally and is administered collaboratively by CUNY's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy and a global, non-profit public health incubator. Infectivity, incidence, and recovery rates were computed and graphical representations of epidemiological datasets were studied. We have discussed a plausible conceptual framework based on the principles of population health informatics for countries with similar characteristics to build a stronger public and community health foundation in order to safeguard populations during a health emergency in the future.
Keywords: COVID-19, India, SMAART RAPID tracker, public health, public policy
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