Ashoka Reflections_JULY 2023
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The Centre will also focus on the epidemiology of both infectious and non-infectious diseases and has
already done impactful work on understanding the spread of Covid. The Centre has further plans to initiate
research into the socio-economic and environmental determinants of health, by trying to correlate – at the
individual level – food and nutrition, lifestyle and environmental exposure, to disease burden. One-health
will be a major focus of the centre at a later stage. CHART may later merge with a Centre for Digital Health
(CDH) which is also being planned at Ashoka.
The third proposed centre will focus on digitalisation and society. The scale and scope of digitalisation, and
the use of AI in public life in India, are unmatched in the world, especially in large public service applications.
The use of such technologies is not only restricted to the Government but is also growing rapidly in the
private sector. This provides a unique opportunity to generate new research questions around safe and
secure design, and ethical deployment of such technologies at scale. Computer science at Ashoka – situated
in a liberal arts environment among strong departments of economics, sociology, political science and
philosophy – is ideally poised to undertake such research.
We envisage that these centres will not only provide new and original research contexts, but will also help
build partnerships with government and private entities, inform public policy, and promote
entrepreneurship. We hope to formally announce the ASAC sometime soon.
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(Prof. Subhashis Banerjee was formerly the HoD for Computer Science. He plans to join back the Department
of Computer Science at Ashoka University in September 2023.)
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