Hub for Disease Modelling and Environmental Surveillance

A translational research programme extending disease modelling and novel surveillance methods to India’s livestock-health system, in partnership with ICAR institutes and state animal husbandry departments.

Workstreams

01
Live pipeline

Disease Modelling

Builds simulation models calibrated to real surveillance data, supporting scenario analysis for vaccination strategies and national disease control programmes.

  1. Updated datasets

    Data sources

    • Seromonitoring
    • Outbreak records
    • District populations
  2. Versioned inputs

    Curation

    • Cleaning
    • Standardisation
    • Linkage & versioning
  3. Active models

    Modelling

    • Compartmental
    • Metapopulation
    • Hybrid agent-based
  4. Research outputs

    Technical artefacts

    • Toolkit & code
    • Curated datasets
    • Papers & preprints
02
Field validated

Environmental Surveillance

Develops molecular methods on non-invasive samples as an early warning proxy for outbreak detection.

  1. Field signal

    Sampling

    • Milk, bulk cooling centres
    • Wastewater
    • Slaughterhouse & clinical
  2. Rapid analysis

    Assays

    • RT-LAMP
    • CRISPR, PathCrisp
    • Multiplex PCR & LFA
  3. Real-time checks

    Validation

    • Limit of detection
    • Field pilots
    • Serotype coverage
  4. Deployable protocols

    Field artefacts

    • Sampling protocols
    • Assay kits
    • Papers & preprints

Outputs

Four research outputs.

Prototype

2 live models

Foot-and-Mouth Disease toolkit

Two decision-support tools for veterinary officials: population immunity over time, and spatial visualisation of disease spread.

Immunity projectionOutbreak spread

Open toolkit

Available

Active dataset

Datasets

Curated seromonitoring, livestock population, and demographic datasets on the ARTPARK data portal.

Open data.artpark.ai

In preparation

Peer review track

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and preprints on livestock disease modelling and surveillance.

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In preparation

Field protocols

Protocols

Sampling, surveillance, and reporting protocols developed jointly with field teams.

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Team

Meet the team.

Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

Principal Investigator

Prof. Siva Athreya

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR)

Principal Investigator

Prof. Vijay Chandru

ARTPARK

Principal Investigator

Raghu Dharmaraju

ARTPARK

Principal Investigator

Project staff

Varsha Jaisimha

Project Scientist

IISc Bengaluru

Shriram Ramadevi Iyer

Project Scientist

ICTS-TIFR

Bithika Chatterjee

Project Scientist

IISc Bengaluru

Rakhi Sharma

Project Scientist

IISc Bengaluru

Adish Illikkal

Data Scientist

ARTPARK

Lijith K. M.

Programme Manager

ARTPARK

Miqdad Vichawera

FullStack Developer Intern

ARTPARK

Partners

A coordinated research alliance.

A distributed collaboration network connecting vaccine science, field surveillance, animal-health departments, molecular diagnostics, and translational technology partners.

Research collaborators

Veterinary College, Hassan

Field sampling and clinical observations.

University of Agricultural Sciences (GKVK), Bengaluru

Sampling sites and logistics.

Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services, Karnataka

Vaccination and field data.

Department of Animal Husbandry, Kerala

Seromonitoring data.

Industry collaborators

CrisprBits

Lateral-flow assay development using CRISPR.

Molecular Solutions

Molecular diagnostics.

Shankaranarayana Life Sciences

India-developed one-step PCR kit.

Progress is reviewed twice yearly by the Project Review and Monitoring Committee (PRMC). The programme reports to the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.