Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
स्वास्थ्य अनुसंधान विभाग, स्वास्थ्य और परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार
WHO Collaborating Centre For Research and Training On Diarrhoeal Diseases
The vision, of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), is to perform research and develop strategies for treatment, prevention and control of enteric infections and HIV/AIDS threatening the Nation's health.
MBBS, M.D. (General Medicine)
Director & Scientist G,
ICMR - NIRBI, Kolkata
Dr Santasabuj Das is currently appointed as Scientist G and Director at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata. He is also the principal investigator and coordinator of the Biomedical Informatics Center of ICMR at NICED. He has the academic and professional background in Clinical Medicine and is pursuing a full-time research career since 1998.
He joined NICED as an independent investigator and a permanent employee in January 2005. His current research interest spans several areas of host responses to microorganisms (both pathogens and commensals) including immune responses and vaccine development. View Profile
Secretary to Government of India, Department of Health Research
Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research
Dr Rajiv Bahl is a physician-scientist, with specialization in paediatrics (MD Pediatrics: University of Delhi) and public health (PhD: All India Institute of Medical Sciences). He received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Bergen, Norway, in 2022 in recognition of his contributions to maternal and child health research.
Dr Bahl has demonstrated leadership in health research and translating research to public health policy both in India and at a global level over the past three decades. His prolific scholarly output includes over 250 papers in peer reviewed journals and an H-Index of 78 that positions him among top 1.25% scientists in the world across all disciplines. View Profile
- An Vaccine implementation Research by ICMR- NICED in collaboration with State Public Health System, Govt of West Bengal.
Cholera remains a global public health problem with developing countries bearing the burnt many folds. WHO - Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC) has declared to End Cholera by 2030 to which India is also committed as a Nation.
Prevention of Cholera outbreak always remained a challenge in countries like India where there are lots of slum populations with high population density. Achieving cholera control through improving water, hygiene, and sanitation may not be feasible at times and require sustained effort and commitment. In such a situation, the Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) is an important intervention to address immediately the cholera outbreak menace.
In this regard, ICMR-NICED Kolkata is taking the initiative through an ICMR-funded project for health system implementation of OCV in selected cholera-vulnerable districts of West Bengal utilizing the state health machinery so that effectiveness, challenges, and future policy decisions on requirements of programmatic introduction of OCV may be monitored from real health system perspective.
Euvichol-Plus is an OCV containing inactivated whole cell (WC) of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 as active ingredients. It is very safe and around 65% efficacious as evidenced from earlier Randomized Control Trials. The study vaccine (Euvichol-Plus) has been registered in multiple countries, with WHO prequalification for use in subjects 1 year and above. Euvichol-Plus has been procured from UN agencies at subsidized rate, comprising more than 90% of OCV supply to cholera-endemic countries worldwide.
The primary objective is to evaluate the impact of OCV implementation in cholera-endemic zones of West Bengal in a real time situation through a mass vaccination campaign using the public healthcare delivery system. Other specific research components will also be included, like :
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NIRBI moved from the rented premises at No. 3 Kyd Street to its own establishment at P-33, C.I.T. Road, Scheme XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, adjacent to the Infectious Diseases Hospital. The unique feature of this Institute is that it conducts basic research and applied clinical and epidemiological research on diarrhoeal diseases under the same roof. This Institute has its basic science set up with well equipped, modern technological facilities in different disciplines such as bacteriology, virology, parasitology, biochemistry, pathophysiology, molecular biology, electron microscopy, immunology and biochemistry. Read more...
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest medical research bodies in the world.
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To address rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) across
the country, the first National Antimicrobial Resistance Hub
in India was established at ICMR-National Institute of
Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED) in 2019 and is
funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
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