https://arunmitra.com/categories/health-systems/ Recent content in Health Systems on Arun Mitra Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/mch-data-ecosystem/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/mch-data-ecosystem/ Background Despite heavy investment in digital health information systems, frontline facilities in resource-constrained settings remain paradoxically data-rich yet information-poor. Health information systems built with an upward gaze for accountability reporting often fail to support the decisions that medical officers, data entry operators, and ANMs need to make locally. This work, part of Arun Mitra’s PhD thesis on participatory data science in ITDA-Rampachodavaram, Andhra Pradesh, asks how the maternal and child health (MCH) data ecosystem at primary health centre (PHC) level is actually structured, used, and constrained. https://arunmitra.com/research/amr-diagnostics-poct/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://arunmitra.com/research/amr-diagnostics-poct/ Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat in low- and middle-income countries, yet access to reliable diagnostics remains deeply unequal. Marginalised populations, particularly in rural, tribal, and remote settings, are least likely to reach laboratories capable of culture and susceptibility testing, leaving treatment to empirical and often inappropriate antibiotic use. This work, conducted under the EquityAMR initiative in India, examines the AMR diagnostic access gap for marginalised communities and the role point-of-care technologies could play in closing it.