Project title: Scaling up interventions to improve the control of hypertension and diabetes in partnership with the governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu: Leveraging India’s national NCD program
This NHMRC-GACD funded project (ID APP1169766) aims to scale up a structured lifestyle intervention program to improve the control of hypertension and diabetes in Southern India. The project is a partnership with the governments of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and will leverage India’s National Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Program.
The aim of this project is to generate evidence of the scalability of effective lifestyle change interventions to improve the control of Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
The objectives of the project are:
- To assess how sustainability and scaling up success factors have integrated into the design and implementation of the BHP interventions.
- To explore the enablers and barriers of sustainability and scaling up.
- To identify practical solutions that can improve sustainability and scaling up of BHP interventions.
The project will generate robust evidence on scaling up lifestyle interventions at the community level in Southern India. By working directly with the state health departments, the project will ensure that implementation will occur with the translation of evidence for the state-wide scale-up of interventions.
Collaborating institutions
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia; National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Chief investigators
Brian Oldenburg, Jeemon P, Ajay Mahal, KR Thankappan, Mohammed Ali, Ganesh P, Barbara McPake, John Chambers, Pilvikki Absetz, Sathish Thirunavukkarasu
Associate investigators
Gregg Edward, Juliana Chan, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Dr Manoj Murhekar, Dr Jerard Selvam, Dr Bipin Gopal, Edwin Fisher, James Best, Nihal Thomas, Vilma Irazola
PhD students
Dr Abha Shresta
Implementation of interventions
This project welcomes Honours, Masters, and PhD students.
For more information, contact Brian Oldenburg.