India - Collaboration

Collaborations between Oxford University and India are exceptionally broad and rooted in equal partnership. Some of the links between Oxford and India can be seen below: 

India-Oxford Cancer Research Network
In the Medical Sciences division, the India-Oxford (INDOX) Cancer Research Network, a partnership established in 2005 between Oxford University and six leading cancer research centres in India, has established itself as India’s leading academic oncology network. It conducts a number of clinical studies in common cancers in India and provides training and fellowships to more than 30 Indian clinicians and scientists.

INTERGROWTH-21st
Professor Stephen Kennedy, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, is collaborating with Indian colleagues on INTERGROWTH-21st, an international consortium which researches healthy growth of foetuses and new born babies. The primary purpose of the project is to develop a new set of international standards describing normal growth and nutritional status of babies from conception to 12 months in eight geographically diverse populations. Such standards have never been created for this age group before, making it very difficult to investigate whether ethnic or environmental factors contribute to the small sizes of babies in some parts of the world. In collaboration with the Department of Nutrition of the WHO, the results will be incorporated into national/international, maternal and neonatal programmes for monitoring maternal/infant health and nutrition.

George Centre for Healthcare Innovation
The George Centre for Healthcare Innovation runs projects in India in collaboration with The George Institute, India to find effective affordable ways to provide essential healthcare to those in resource-poor settings. Both centres collaborate on the Oxford-India Health Research Network; an informal network of researchers collaborating with health research organisations in India. The George Centre for Healthcare Innovation also collaborates with the Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi and the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi.

PHFI-UKC Wellcome Trust Capacity Building Programme
In a separate collaboration with the Public Health Foundation of India, Oxford is part of the PHFI-UKC Wellcome Trust Capacity Building Programme (WTP), a consortium of UK universities whose public health departments are teaching and training researchers to populate India's public health institutions.

Young Lives
The Young Lives project is a long-term international study following and documenting the lives of 12,000 children over 15 years in 4 study countries (the state of Andhra Pradesh in India alongside Ethiopia, Peru, and Vietnam). 

Oxford-India Network in Theoretical Physical Sciences
The Oxford-India Network in Theoretical Physical Sciences has strengthened Oxford's links with premier institutions in India including the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata; and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.  

Global Jet Watch
Oxford’s scientific collaborations in India are not only with trained scientists and well established institutions; the University also collaborates with school children. Global Jet Watch is an exciting project linking astronomers at Oxford University with schoolchildren around the world in order to carry out cutting edge research. The aim is to create the world's first continuous, round-the-clock, detailed monitoring programme of a black hole named SS433.

The project plans to deploy small telescopes, strategically separated in India, Chile, Australia and South Africa. These telescopes—with specially designed instrumentation built in Oxford—will be placed at girls schools in each location, each with a local professional astronomer. Each night, the schoolgirls will obtain a spectrum of the high-speed jets which are emitted from SS433, and the data they collect will be processed in Oxford.