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A Health Catalyst that enhances health and well-being through innovation, particularly for the marginalized

11/09/2026

Health systems don't transform because they're digitised. They transform when digital infrastructure is designed to build trust, continuity, and better decisions.

At the University of Central Florida's Healthcare IT Symposium, Dr. Prof. Sudha Chandrashekar, CEO, Swasti, and former Executive Director National Health Authority (NHA) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), Government Of India, shared why India's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is more than a digital health initiative, it's an example of how interoperable, consent-driven public infrastructure can reshape the way care is delivered.

The future of health isn't just digital. It's .

11/09/2026

We celebrate hospitals when lives are saved.
But many healthier lives are built long before someone becomes a patient.
Good nutrition helps strengthen the foundation for healthier pregnancies, stronger immunity, better growth, and long-term wellbeing.
That's why nutrition isn't separate from healthcare.
It is part of what makes healthcare work.

08/09/2026

As India marks Poshan Maah, our campaign is highlighting how nutrition is one of the most powerful interventions in - working before illness appears, alongside healthcare systems, and across every stage of life.

“Nutrition security is not built on food alone - it is built on the systems that make good nutrition possible every day.”

In her latest piece for The Daily Guardian, Shrirupa Sengupta, CEO, Swasti, argues that nutrition outcomes are shaped as much by healthcare, livelihoods, social protection and caregiving as they are by what's on a child's plate. It's a timely reminder that strengthening nutrition means strengthening the systems that sustain it.

Read the full article here (page 14): https://epaper.thedailyguardian.com/2026/09/06/e-paper-today-delhi-07-september-2026/

07/09/2026

We often think of as something that belongs on our plate.
But nutrition belongs at the heart of health.

It influences how children grow, how women experience pregnancy, how our bodies fight disease, and how communities stay healthier over time.

This , we're launching - a campaign that looks beyond food to explore why nutrition is one of the strongest foundations of primary healthcare and preventive health.

Better health isn't built overnight.
It's built every day.

Join us!

03/09/2026

The hashtag points to a bigger question: what does a heat-resilient health system actually need?

The Climate Care Champions Programme (CCCP) hashtag found that communities in Ananthapuramu were facing multiple, overlapping vulnerabilities - from unreliable access to water and electricity to limited access to information on coping with heat.

Yet among people who had received heat-health information, frontline health workers were the most commonly reported source. That makes the hashtag a critical part of the hashtag response to extreme heat. But training alone cannot address structural vulnerability.

The evidence points towards a broader hashtag : integrate heat preparedness into primary healthcare; strengthen trusted, hyperlocal communication; improve access to essential resources and cooling; and sustain capacity through regular reinforcement and supportive systems.

For us, this is the larger hashtag from CCCP:
Building climate-resilient health systems means strengthening both the people delivering care and the systems that enable them to act.

The research is now published in BMJ Public Health.
Read the full paper - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13331097/

02/09/2026

What happens when heat-health preparedness moves from a training room into the ?

The Climate Care Champions Programme trained 90 trainers, who went on to train 2,266 frontline health workers across all 76 PHCs/UPHCs in Ananthapuramu district. reaching an estimated 4.5 million residents.

Among 1,453 frontline health workers who completed both assessments, knowledge of key heat-health concepts improved, with the largest gain seen in understanding the first protective action to take during heat-related illness: +29.5 percentage points.

Confidence in recognising severity, taking appropriate action and advising communities also increased.

The finding is encouraging, but the also points to what comes next: reinforcement, supervision and integration into routine health systems.

Because building is not about delivering one training. It is about building capability that lasts.

Read the full research: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13331097/

01/09/2026

is not only an environmental challenge. It is a health-system challenge.

A study of the Climate Care Champions Programme (CCCP) in Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, found important gaps in frontline health workers’ knowledge of heat-related illness, even where reported confidence was high.

Following , knowledge improved substantially in areas including recognition of heat-related illness, identification of severe symptoms and recognition of infant-specific symptoms.

For public health, the message is clear: preparedness has to be built on what health workers know and can apply, not only on how confident they feel.

In the next post, we look at what happened when a district-wide training model was put into .

31/08/2026

NEW RESEARCH | Building heat resilience through district-wide training of frontline health workers in India.

Extreme heat is increasingly a public health challenge and frontline health workers play a critical role in helping communities identify, prevent and respond to heat-related illness.

Our new research, published in BMJ Public Health, evaluates the Climate Care Champions Programme (CCCP), a district-wide training initiative implemented in Ananthapuramu, Andhra Pradesh, in collaboration with the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education.

The study examines what changed when heat-health capacity building was taken to scale, reaching 2,266 frontline health workers across 76 PHCs/UPHCs and an estimated 4.5 million residents.

Over the coming posts, we'll unpack the evidence: the preparedness gaps we found, what changed after training, and what the findings mean for building more heat-resilient health systems.

📖 Read the full paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13331097/

25/08/2026

Technology is reshaping . But before can deliver better outcomes, health systems need to be ready for it.

At the 31st Annual Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) Conference in Leuven, Belgium, Dr. Prof. Sudha Chandrashekar, CEO, Swasti, joined Prof. Neville Calleja, Professor of Public Health at the University of Malta and Director of the Directorate of Health Information and Research at Malta's Ministry of Health, for a session on "Making Healthcare AI-Ready: Getting EHR Data and Systems Ready for Efficient and Ethical AI." The session was moderated by Dr. Parul Naib, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Central Florida.

The discussion explored what it takes to prepare for AI not just through technology, but through stronger data governance, interoperability and patient-centred digital infrastructure.

"India has made significant progress in digital health with the launch of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. The critical aspect is creating and using a unique identifier, completeness of data as per EHR standards and interoperability to make the patient health journey seamless" said Dr. Prof. Sudha Chandrashekar in her address.

As countries accelerate AI adoption in healthcare, the real opportunity lies in building digital foundations that make innovation equitable, ethical and impactful. Join us to ready health systems for technology integration so that we are able to serve those most vulnerable!

24/08/2026

Public health financing has always evolved to meet emerging . Climate change is demanding the next evolution.

We have growing on how climate affects health. The opportunity now is to build stronger pathways between evidence, investment and implementation so that climate and health action becomes equitable, measurable and scalable. Hear more from our ClimatexHealth Partnerships Manager, Spriha Atray!

That's the conversation we're taking forward through our 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 in New Delhi, bringing together leaders across government, philanthropy, development finance, research and the private sector.

. We'll be sharing key insights from the Strategic Roundtable today from 2 PM onwards.

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