Vikash R. Keshri, MD, PhD

New Paper: Stigma & Resilience among Acid Burn Survivors 📄 Led by Pratishtha Singh, we used participatory research to document the courage it takes to rebuild life after an attack. 🔗bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/e0… #EndAcidAttacks #GBV #research

@PhD_Genie Supervisor: You only read too much

Write an academic horror story in six words or less, based on real-life experiences

@abantika77 @BloomsburyIndia Hello @abantika77 could you please DM me your email? I would like to organise a book talk on this book.

#GamesHospitalsPlay exposes the shadowy economics of India’s private healthcare industry. This isn’t a story of a few rotten eggs. It is a systemic breakdown - hidden markups, surge pricing, unnecessary procedures ⁦@BloomsburyIndia⁩ Order: tinyurl.com/y53vnzya

Honored to speak at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine on reframing road safety as a human rights & social justice issue. Road crashes are predictable and preventable. #RoadSafety #PublicHealth

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

The pace and carelessness of #AI use by #healthworkers is worrisome

Healthcare workers’ use of GenAI might risk leaks of sensitive patient data, stu... epaper.thehindu.com/ccidist-ws/th/…

#UGCRegulations | According to data furnished to the Rajya Sabha, the unfilled faculty positions in central universities are the highest for OBCs—around forty percent as opposed to less than fifteen percent for the general category. Over thirty percent of the sanctioned positions under the SC and ST categories remain unfilled. The skew gets worse with seniority. For professors, over eighty percent of OBC and ST posts lie vacant. The difference is marginally lower for SC seats, where nearly two-thirds of professor posts remain unfilled. The skew is at the heart of the institutional nature of casteism that students face. Read the entire essay by Sunil Kashyap (@SunilKashyap0) on how the UGC’s equity regulations test Hindutva’s social arithmetic: caravanmagazine.in/education/ugc-…

Excellent piece by @1amnerd Adding this gh.bmj.com/content/7/9/e0…

India's drug regulator inspected 90% of cough syrup makers, found lapses, official says economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healt…

Private health insurance in India has been a complete failure. Opaque processes and lack of trust. Unless these are addressed, everyone loses. Indian citizens yes, but also insurance companies. IRDAI needs to get its act together fast.

#STATOISTICS | India's oldest #AIIMS (New Delhi) has more than 1 in 3 teaching posts vacant, but it's mostly the newer campuses which urgently need more staff Read more in today's Times Of India print edition 📰toi.in/epaper

It was wonderful to host my friend & closest #GlobalHealth collaborator Dr. Veena Sriram from @UBC at @JindalGlobalUNI for two days of meetings followed by a powerful guest lecture on ‘Health Workers’ Protests: India & Globally’ #Research #Collaboration #GlobalHealth #Academia

This is important reality check👇🏾 #digital barrier not limited to elderly but also those with limited literacy, or access to device. #While #DigitalHealth is enabler for some, they are a big barrier for others

One in seven stroke patients in India is #younger than 45 years. Nearly two in five reach hospital more than 24 hours after symptoms begin. Three months later, more than half are either dead or living with significant disability. These findings come from India’s largest hospital-based stroke registry analysis, published in the International Journal of Stroke. The study was led by Prashant Mathur of the ICMR–National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR), Bengaluru, along with investigators of the National Stroke Registry Programme. @timesofindia #icmr #india #stroke #nationalregistry

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in Health Promotion International to mark Ottawa Charter at 40: academic.oup.com/heapro/article… You can watch my chat with the journal's editor about it on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?si… Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbPsW…

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in Health Promotion International to mark Ottawa Charter at 40: academic.oup.com/heapro/article… Watch my chat with editor Samantha Thomas on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?si… Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbPsW…

Join us for this important discussion on 'Health Workers' Protests and Power' by Dr Veena Sriram. Details below👇

#GamesHospitalsPlay The state of tertiary #healthcare in India in one frame Private hospitals unregulated, a law unto themselves, catering only to bottom lines Overburdened government institutes struggling to cope. Patients suffer

#GamesHospitalsPlay How abdication of regulatory oversight looks on the ground Patients are left to their own devices to tackle th blatant tactics by private hospitals to inflate bills My piece in ⁦@timesofindia⁩ today

@abantika77 @bsindia @nehabhatt70 Excellent, congratulations, looking forward to read the book.

#GamesHospitalsPlay For anyone curious to know about how hospitals actually work, beyond what’s visible to patients, this is well worth reading” ⁦@bsindia⁩ book review. Thank you ⁦@nehabhatt70⁩