Brief On The Organization:

The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is working towards building a healthier India. It is helping to address the limited institutional and systems capacity in India by strengthening education and training, advancing research and technology and facilitating policy and practice in the area of Public Health. PHFI is headquartered in Current Delhi with national presence through its constituent units of regional Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs) and Centers of Applied Research in core public health themes. The Foundation, established in 2006 as a public private initiative, is governed by an independent board comprising of senior government officials, eminent Indian and International academic and leaders, civil society representatives and corporate leaders. For more information, please visit the website www.phfi.org .

Project Brief:

Each year, millions are sickened from influenza and 250,000 to 500,000 people die, as seasonal epidemics, frequent pandemics and spill over events spread each year,



affecting between 5% and 30% of the global population. A universal influenza vaccine able to protect against influenza in all populations offers the greatest cost-effective hope for preventing seasonal and pandemic outbreaks. While significant progress in understanding the influenza virus has led to the development of multiple vaccines over the past 50 years, there has been limited progress in improving the protection conferred by influenza vaccines. INCENTIVE is a highly integrated consortium between Indian, European and US based research institutions to reduce the worldwide burden resulting from its outbreaks. The main strategic goal of INCENTIVE is to establish a cornerstone toward the development of next generation influenza vaccines to reduce the worldwide burden resulting from disease outbreaks. Under INCENTIVE, PHFI will develop an influenza surveillance system to conduct influenza surveillance in the community to measure the influe

📌 Consultant – Field worker (Visakhapatnam)
🏢 Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs)
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