Missed calls, Automated Calls and Health Support: Using AI to improve maternal health outcomes by increasing program engagement

no code implementations • 13 Jun 2020 • Siddharth Nishtala, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Divy Thakkar, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Anirudh Grama, Aparna Hegde, Ramesh Padmanabhan, Neha Madhiwalla, Suresh Chaudhary, Balaraman Ravindran, Milind Tambe

India accounts for 11% of maternal deaths globally where a woman dies in childbirth every fifteen minutes.

Measuring Data Collection Diligence for Community Healthcare

no code implementations • 5 Nov 2020 • Ramesha Karunasena, Mohammad Sarparajul Ambiya, Arunesh Sinha, Ruchit Nagar, Saachi Dalal, Divy Thakkar, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Milind Tambe

In this work, we define and test a data collection diligence score.

Selective Intervention Planning using Restless Multi-Armed Bandits to Improve Maternal and Child Health Outcomes

no code implementations • 7 Mar 2021 • Siddharth Nishtala, Lovish Madaan, Aditya Mate, Harshavardhan Kamarthi, Anirudh Grama, Divy Thakkar, Dhyanesh Narayanan, Suresh Chaudhary, Neha Madhiwalla, Ramesh Padmanabhan, Aparna Hegde, Pradeep Varakantham, Balaraman Ravindran, Milind Tambe

India has a maternal mortality ratio of 113 and child mortality ratio of 2830 per 100, 000 live births.

Multi-Armed Bandits

Facilitating human-wildlife cohabitation through conflict prediction

no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Susobhan Ghosh, Pradeep Varakantham, Aniket Bhatkhande, Tamanna Ahmad, Anish Andheria, Wenjun Li, Aparna Taneja, Divy Thakkar, Milind Tambe

With increasing world population and expanded use of forests as cohabited regions, interactions and conflicts with wildlife are increasing, leading to large-scale loss of lives (animal and human) and livelihoods (economic).