The Centre for Commercial Determinant of Health (C-CDOH),Institute of Public Health Bengaluru in association with Centre for Public Health, School of Social Work Tata Institute of Social Science, Guwahati conducted a half a day workshop on Commercial Determinants of Health (CDOH) to faculty and students on February 13, 2025.
(Faculty and students of TISS engaged in CDOH workshop)
A second workshop was also conducted at Department of Social Work, Tezpur University on February 14, 2025.
(Faculty and students of the Department of Social Work, at Tezpur University who participated in the CDOH workshop)
Dr. Upendra Bhojani, Senior Fellow, IPH Bengaluru and Senior Fellow India Alliance DBT/Wellcome Trust introduced the CDOH concept to the participants. He clarified that throughout time, the meaning of CDOH has changed. During the training, special emphasis was placed on how commercial enterprises influence public health, both favourably and negatively.
The participants were engaged in group work after introductory talk. In the group work teams were asked to come up with research questions pertaining to various public health issues and CDOH. 3 teams presented various research questions, that could potentially become used as research on CDOH.
