public-health on S Anand

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:48:45 +0000

And THIS is impact. Thanks for making MY 2022 an amazing year, Tanvi Bansal!

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:18:29 +0000

Could you spare a minute & share your COVID-19 vaccination cost, please?

Releasing modified mosquitoes precisely

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:49:51 +0000

At PyCon Indonesia, I spoke about a project we worked on with the World Mosquito Program.

The World Mosquito Program (WMP) modifies mosquitoes with a bacteria – Wolbachia. This reduces their ability to carry deadly viruses. (It makes me perversely happy that we’re infecting mosquitoes now 😉.)

Modifying mosquitoes is an expensive process. With a limited set of “good mosquitoes”, it is critical to find the best release points that will help them replicate rapidly.

But planning the release points took weeks of manual effort. It involved ground personnel going through several iterations.

So our team took high-resolution satellite images, figured out the building density, estimated population density based on that, and generated a release plan. This model is 70% more accurate and reduced the time from 3 weeks to 2 hours.

More details at the Gramener website.

The slides for the talk are below.

https://www.slideshare.net/gramener/saving-lives-with-geospatial-ai-pycon-indonesia-2020

How to feed a family of 4

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:00:00 +0000

How to feed a family of 4 for $45. These recipes are nutritious and healthy. They are low in fat and cholesterol, high in protein and rich in fibre.

Obesity reduces lifespan

Sun, 12 Jan 2003 12:00:00 +0000

Obesity reduces lifespan. An obese 20-year-old man may have his life expectancy cut by as many as 13 years compared with normal-weight people.

Cold and cold weather

Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:00:00 +0000

I have a cold. And although some Chinese may say otherwise, it has nothing to do with cold weather.