# About THETA project  Towards Health Equity & Transformative Action on tribal health was a project as part of a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance fellowship (Intermediate) in public health that was awarded to me in 2017 for a five year duration. The protocol for the study is [published in Wellcome Open Research](https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-202/v1).  # THETA project outputs  1. Dataset characterising several individual, household, neighborhood/settlement & state level attributes of Adivasi/tribal & nearby rural populations across five states covering south, central & NE India. Data set available for download at [Figshare](https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_b_Towards_Health_Equity_and_Transformative_Action_on_tribal_health_THETA_project_dataset_b_/23701863) 2. [Talk on Social determinants of tribal health delivered at EFICON 2021 in October 2021](https://youtu.be/iMV3pDYNWCY?si=pS082dwhChxOtFN6) 2. BIC talk on [COVID: Looking back, looking forward](https://bangaloreinternationalcentre.org/event/covid-looking-back-looking-forward/) on 17 May 2023 3. Talk given at the [Sangath Monthly Research Webinar](https://youtu.be/68f5_rh5VBk?si=vi5QGsJdmCZWbKCL) & to [Noora Health](https://youtu.be/bU-L-OkpGGs?si=v3zk8Mxann9qx-KJ) on *Patterns, process and action on tribal health* 4. [*The role of Indigenous Women in the preservation and transmissino of traditional knowledge: local context*](https://youtu.be/pg5pkoMRd-Q?si=_MP56HnYhYcNuA2m) a webinar on the occasion of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022 featuring Gowramma from the Iruliga community in Ramanagara, Puttamma from the Soliga community from Gundlupet, Chamarajanagar & Susheela Kenjoor from the Koraga community. Event co-organised by CTRITH & Jilla Sangha 5. [Designing Educational Tools for Snakebite Management in Northeast India ](https://youtu.be/puUPXrfstBE?si=AhT7_XH3ePDZnWSt)was done as part of a public engagement grant from DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance. The approach used a participatory design methodology that includes an ethnographic study, co-design workshops, and interviews with users and stakeholders. The overarching aim of this investigation is to understand how design can be used to localise an aspect of One Health from theory to practice, taking into account the contextual needs of the environment. The geographical location of the case study focuses on the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, specifically examining the area of Pakke Tiger Reserve. This investigation consists of (1) an ethnographic study of indigenous groups (Aka, Miji and Nyishi) living in conservation areas in North-east India, and their interactions with snakes (2) the design and evaluation of a participatory edu-info game ‘Biyu Tabu Nibew’ about snakes and snakebite management for children between the ages of 12-15 years belonging to indigenous groups (Aka, Miji and Nyishi) in North-east India. This investigation serves as a blueprint for how design methodologies and participatory education can be applied to fields of conservation and public health research in indigenous contexts, resulting in the use of frugal innovations to create educational access using place-based knowledge and locally sourced material. # Ongoing analysis/papers  1. Exploratory visualisation of the dataset 2. Examining tribal vs non-tribal (health) disadvantage along socio-geographical remoteness gradient