India Research Collaboration Visit by Prof Mark Hayter and Dr Anand Ahankari

Group picture following a meeting with the Swiss-Aid Pune Staff

Prof Hayter and Dr Ahankari received a travel award from the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF, responsive mode fund) to design projects around gender equality in India. During the 6 days visit, they conducted meetings with the Swiss-Aid international agency based in Pune, the Centre for Health and Social Justice group based in New Delhi, and the Halo Medical Foundation (HMF) based in Osmanabad.

Interaction with Department of Health staff

The visit enabled opportunities to interact with gender equity project staff, stakeholders, representatives from the State Department of Health, healthcare and allied professionals through HMF's network in Osmanabad district.

Interaction with field staff at HMF

The Hull team in collaboration with Indian partners will work further to finalise project design to prepare submissions for the GCRF, and other relevant funding agencies in the UK, Europe, and India. The visit also included meetings to plan for an MRC grant application to research interventions to address anaemia in Indianfemale adolescents.