Community Science Alliance

Localizing Science. Universalizing Knowledge.

Community Science Alliance

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iPaths

Our team of clinician scientists has developed a compendium of clinical pathways (iPATHS) contextualized to the availability and affordability of diagnostic tools and therapeutics in India. iPATHS are customized to user-types and generate guidance appropriate for a range of healthcare providers including ASHA workers, mid-level providers and physicians, based on permitted scope of practice.

These pathways available in a range of formats are open-source, and continuously maintained and updated by a community of physician scientists, and only published after field-testing and consultation with our community partners administering care in a range of urban and rural settings.

Fellowships

We offer an online fellowship for licensed medical practitioners within five years of their training, who continue to practice clinically throughout the duration of this fellowship. This engaged fellowship combines weekly rounds with domain experts, a 100-session hybrid online lecture series, online platform for daily check-ins with physician-mentors and peers, training in and access to iPATHS and FINGERTIPS, in-person workshops and electives in digital health, medical education leadership, and population health. On completion, physicians will have mastery in critical appraisal of medical literature and rigorous training in evidence-based management of diseases commonly encountered in their clinical settings. The first class will be inaugurated in 2026.

Fellowships

We offer an online fellowship for licensed medical practitioners within five years of their training, who continue to practice clinically throughout the duration of this fellowship. This engaged fellowship combines weekly rounds with domain experts, a 100-session hybrid online lecture series, online platform for daily check-ins with physician-mentors and peers, training in and access to iPATHS and FINGERTIPS, in-person workshops and electives in digital health, medical education leadership, and population health. On completion, physicians will have mastery in critical appraisal of medical literature and rigorous training in evidence-based management of diseases commonly encountered in their clinical settings. The first class will be inaugurated in 2026.

Percuss

Listen to podcasts with experts discussing contextually relevant, evidence-based clinical pathways for the most common conditions seen in clinics and hospitals in India. The podcasts are formatted for a wide audience comprising clinicians, patients, and their support networks. 

Fingertips

A conversational voice-operated multilingual decision support tool powered by CODEVERSE, GPT-4, Bhashini, and others to guide healthcare providers including — and especially —  in resource constrained settings. The Fingertips app accessible through mobile and desktop devices will revolutionize how contextually relevant medical information is sought in real-time at the patient’s bedside. 

Fingertips

A conversational voice-operated multilingual decision support tool powered by CODEVERSE, GPT-4, Bhashini, and others to guide healthcare providers including — and especially —  in resource constrained settings. The Fingertips app accessible through mobile and desktop devices will revolutionize how contextually relevant medical information is sought in real-time at the patient’s bedside. 

Codeverse

Codeverse is the data repository powering our decision-support tools. It comprises all scientific literature accessed by leading LLMs, contextual information provided by the CSA iPATH research team, and relevant local clinical and epidemiological data. We are currently experimenting with local CODEVERSE instances that are also trained on relevant hyperlocal information. CODEVERSE  is scheduled to be released publicly as an open-source digital public good in 2029.