Strengthening India's pandemic preparedness with the four zonal institutes of virology: stakeholder consultations for outbreak response and collaborative research priorities
Kunal Pise, Babasaheb Tandale, Naveen Kumar, Pradip Barde, Ashok Munivenkatappa, Basavaraj Mathapati, Abhijeet Jadhav, Pankaj Rawat, Shrinivasa Basavaraj, Satish Gaikwad, Avinash Deoshatwar, Sakib Akther Pattassery, Susha Kutteyil, Anisha Pulinchani · 2026
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Kunal Pise and colleagues report in 2026 how India set regional virus priorities ahead of opening four new zonal virology institutes. The institutes, backed by a national health mission and the World Bank, need clear local agendas. Workshops in March 2024 gathered 186 stakeholders across four zones.
State health officials, medical colleges, research centers, and lab network staff ranked 40 viral diseases grouped by how often they occur. A structured scoring method turned those rankings into consensus lists per zone. Rankings agreed in some places and split in others, mirroring local ecology and past outbreaks. Cross-cutting research themes and preparedness gaps emerged alongside the disease lists, ready to guide each institute's first years.
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| CREATOR | Kunal Pise, Babasaheb Tandale, Naveen Kumar, Pradip Barde, Ashok Munivenkatappa, Basavaraj Mathapati, Abhijeet Jadhav, Pankaj Rawat, Shrinivasa Basavaraj, Satish Gaikwad, Avinash Deoshatwar, Sakib Akther Pattassery, Susha Kutteyil, Anisha Pulinchani |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |