Mission
To be a Centre of Excellence in Pediatric education, training, health care and research imbued with scientific principles, compassion and commitment to serve.
Projects
- Multicentric prospective hospital-based sentinel surveillance to determine the etiology of acute bacterial meningitis in children, using conventional and molecular methods funded by Sanofi Pasteur
- The Prevalence Study of Specific Micronutrient deficiencies In School-going Children Aged Between 6-16 Years in Ten Cities of India funded by GSK.
- Etiology of Childhood Pneumonia in India: an ICMR task-force study funded by ICM.
- Congenital Rubella Syndrome in infants funded by ICMR
- Surveillance of Radiological Pneumonia in children under 5 years of age in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Prospective multicountry pneumococcal colonization research in children and adults funded by the Mérieux Foundation.
- Implementation Research on management of Possible Serious Bacterial Infection in young infants where referral is not feasible through strengthening of existing home-based new-born care programmes in Uttar Pradesh, India, funded by WHO.
Results
We have a research project entitled “To assess the association of maternal pro-inflammatory cytokines with preterm birth. A case-control study” funded by the Indian Council of Medical, in collaboration with the Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences. This project has mainly evaluated the role of maternal pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as IL 6, IL 10, and TNF α in preterm birth. In addition to this, we have an ICMR-funded Senior Research Fellow working on the project entitled, “Effect and association of GST gene variants in children with bronchial asthma”.
Another project is entitled, “Improving household decision-making for the management of pediatric pneumonia in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar”, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This project aims to create communication materials that can help improve household decision-making in the face of lower respiratory illness in children in Northern India. Fourteen districts have been covered. Audio, video and text messages have been developed in the following domains: (a) symptom recognition, (b) where and when to seek treatment, (c) how to approach a care provider and negotiate for quality of care and (d) risk vulnerability perception. A Childhood Pneumonia Behaviour Change Communication Committee (CPBCCC), formed for this project is represented by functionaries from the Department of Health and Family.