Research

The project determines the fraction of patients achieving care goals, identifies predictors of disease and treatment response, and studies adverse outcomes like hospitalizations. Additionally, it looks into genetic and microbiome factors influencing cardiometabolic risk. The project started in December 2023, and is expected to be complted by January 2026.

Project Head(s): Dr. Anurag Agrawal

DTH-Lab is a global consortium of partners working to drive implementation of The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030’s recommendations for value-based digital transformations for health co-created with young people.

Project Head(s): Dr. Mayank Garg, Dr. Anurag Agrawal

This project was part of the initial cohort of the Breakthrough Research Grants Program, a joint collaboration between the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Koita Centre for Digital Health- Ashoka University. This project focuses on building an AI-driven forecasting system to improve the prediction accuracy of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) drug demand across India.

Project Head(s): Dr. Debayan Gupta

This project aims to harness the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract valuable clinical insights from unstructured Electronic Health Records (EHRs), focusing on understanding antibiotic prescription practices and treatment outcomes in India and the US.

Project Head(s): Dr. Rintu Kutum

Project Head(s): Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Mr. Ashish Makani

The "Ashoka Cohort for Health and Well-Being" is a research project that aims to explore personalized lifestyle recommendations by studying the physiological responses of Ashoka University students and staff to various external stimuli. The project involves a digital-first system designed to collect high-quality, digitized data from participants using wearables, including smartwatches and continuous glucose monitoring sensors.

Project Head(s): Dr. Mayank Garg, Dr. Geeta Trilok-Kumar, Dr. Anurag Agrawal

The Alliance for Pathogen Surveillance Innovations (APSI-India) is a pan-India, multi-city consortium aimed at strengthening India’s public health surveillance capacity through advanced genomic tools. This project focuses on leveraging wastewater genomic surveillance to enable early detection and monitoring of pathogens of public health importance.

Project Head(s): Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Dr. Rintu Kutum

This project brought together national research institutes, hospitals, and regional laboratories to enable rapid, coordinated sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 across diverse geographic settings. It was designed to strengthen genomic surveillance capacity through the implementation of a scalable hub-and-spoke model of sequencing laboratories. This model significantly enhanced diagnostic testing to genome sequencing, enabling near real-time tracking of viral evolution and transmission dynamics.

Project Head(s): Dr. Anurag Agrawal