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DIBRUGARH: The ICMR-RMRC, Dibrugarh, launched a unique and ambitious FoodNet dashboard and website on Wednesday in connection with a taskforce project on surveillance of food-borne pathogens from NortheEast India.
This dynamic dashboard will help in the generation of real-time data on diarrheal diseases and outbreaks of food-borne illnesses which would help program planners to implement evidence-based intervention at the earliest. It would also help in better understanding the biology and behaviour around food-borne disease occurrence through an innovative mixed method research approach.
The experience from it will serve as the cornerstone for further scaling up this project on a pan-India basis. This initiative is a first-of-its-kind project in India, which will strengthen the food-borne pathogen survey and bio-medical research in the country.
The project is being run collaboratively by ICMR, RMRC, NE Region, Dibrugarh, ICMR, New Delhi, NICED and C-DAC Kolkata along with the active participation of state health authorities (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Sikkim), academic institutions, including regional medical colleges and community-based organizations as stakeholders of this project.
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