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- Is social media harming our minds, or is the debate bigger than the headlines🧠 On 20th November 2026, the Global Digital Health Summit, Expo & Innovation Awards brings together psychiatrists, researchers and founders at Bharat Mandapam for a Spotlight Session on Mental Health & Digital Age: Challenges, Opportunities & the Startups. We will look at the questions people are asking right now: evidence versus propaganda in the social media ban debate, loneliness in a hyperconnected world, cognitive decline in the age of AI, and
- One of the Best Public Health Summits in India | Mr. Ravi Uday Bhaskar | PHTS 2027 One of the best public health summits I have attended. That was the verdict of Mr. Ravi Uday Bhaskar, Director General, All India Drugs Control Officers’ Confederation (AIDCOC), an organization of the country’s drug regulators, after a full day at the Public Health Transformation Summit 2026. He spoke of learning something new from morning to evening, and of a programme filled with eminent experts. His hope is that conferences of this kind continue
- What is a technology really worth? For years, we have measured technology by what it adds: features, speed, users. In his new research paper, Elimination Is All You Need, Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, PhD., Chairman, Digital First Foundation; Academy of Digital Health Sciences argues that this is the wrong yardstick, and that the true value of any technology lies in something quite different. The paper sets out The Three Laws of Elimination and the Theory of Technological Value, and introduces a way to measure a technology's real
- What is a technology really worth? For years, we have measured technology by what it adds: features, speed, users. In his new research paper, Elimination Is All You Need, Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, PhD., Chairman, Digital First Foundation; Academy of Digital Health Sciences argues that this is the wrong yardstick, and that the true value of any technology lies in something quite different. The paper sets out The Three Laws of Elimination and the Theory of Technological Value, and introduces a way to measure a technology's real
- Food safety does not begin on the plate. Shri Rajit Punhani, IAS, Secretary, Government of India, and Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety And Standards Authority Of India (Fssai), reminds us that it begins in the soil, flows through the water and depends on the air. Speaking at the Public Health Transformation Summit 2026, he said the event earns its name by bringing so many stakeholders to one table. Real change in public health, in his view, needs that breadth, along with technology and every resource available, applied above all
- Digital Health and AI in Public Health | Public Health Transformation Summit 2027 | New Delhi Dr. Harish Iyer, Director, Health R&D, Digital Innovations & AI, Gates Foundation, describes the summit as intellectually rewarding. He heard how digital tools and AI have strengthened India’s health system, along with candid discussion of the gaps that remain. His message is to stay open to what is possible. Technology, he says, can be an ally to public health and need not be seen as a threat to it. The second edition, organised by
- Air Pollution and Public Health in India | Public Health Transformation Summit 2026 | New Delhi Dr. Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi and Editor, Down To Earth, believes the summit brings many communities into one room, because a real dialogue needs everyone present. The message that stays with her concerns the environment. Environmental degradation is affecting health today, and clean air, clean water and nutritious food sit at the core of India’s public health challenge. She adds that
- Public Health Transformation Summit 2027 | Multidisciplinary Public Health | New Delhi Dr. Narendra Kumar Arora, Executive Director, THE INCLEN TRUST INTERNATIONAL, works in public health and immunization sector. He observes that the field is more complex than once assumed and calls for complex sciences methodology to address it. For him, the highlight of the summit is the range of professional backgrounds gathered in one room. He also values the recommendations emerging from the sessions and notes a clear linkage between those
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