Partnerships

TCLab’s collaborations around the world generate solutions to social complexity.

Four examples include:

Swadhyāyā, a unique institutional and evolutionary economics and health consortium co-founded by Smita Srinivas and Dr. Ramakrishna Prasad focused on complexity and research translation in public health. Through the consortium, we aim to build critical networks and consistent solutions for unravelling problems such as chronic kidney disease and cancer. We do this from a preventative and health systems design perspective using insights from institutional and evolutionary economics.

The Industrial Foundation for Health Alliance (IFHA@UCL) is a faculty collaboration between Smita Srinivas and Julius Mugwagwa, within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) department at University College London (UCL). This Alliance adds a new dimension to the traditional public health and medical work that has few direct scholarly or policy linkages to the long-standing scholarship on developmental and  technological capabilities in Asia and Africa in particular. The industrial and economic development concerns of countries must better align with their health goals.

GlobalShift2050, a geopolitics roundtable brought about by a collaboration in 2024 between Smita Srinivas and Gokul Sahni. This is an international group by invitation only to discuss major issues in the world today and the role of India as a Great Power. We do deep dives into pressing issues of international and regional concerns.

TCLab Yantra, a launch in 2025 of a suite of two courses for addressing a crisis in education. The collaboration between Smita Srinivas and Meghana WS is to focus on providing solutions to major global gaps in education that generate existential and disciplinary questions. Too many students and early and mid-career professionals are experiencing a vacuum in their identity and goals.