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IMapp-Modelling Immunisation Outreach in Far-flung Rural Clusters

By: Dr Manosi Lahiri

IMapp, the Immunization App, was developed to strengthen the delivery of public health services, taking advantage of an innovative multidisciplinary approach and digital technologies like Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Machine Learning (ML). The initiative demonstrated the suitability of porting public health data on a GIS platform to get good insights into the distribution of vaccines; create an automated indexing system to monitor the efficacy of the Universal Im......

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IMapp-Modelling Immunisation Outreach in Far-flung Rural Clusters

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