Dear Colleagues,

With the summer now behind us, we start this newsletter issue with an announcement on a brand new column.  Deccan Dispatches” will be a quarterly column offering a practitioner’s perspective from southern India on global health issues. Each edition will take a current theme and examine it through the lens of someone embedded in local realities but with a global gaze.   

Check out today’s first Dispatch by Prashanth NS (Institute of Public Health Bengaluru) in the Feat article below.  His work over the last decade has focused largely on health inequities and social determinants of health of people living in southern India in the biodiverse forested landscapes of the Western Ghats and large expansive Deccan plateau. Both regions face their own ecological mayhem. Prashanth: “Being a community health practitioner at heart, a passion for the general and a scholarship that seeks as much breadth as it seeks depth fascinates me, and hence my work is much more at the...