India, Jan. 28 -- The power and capability to make ourselves healthier and improve our health outcomes lies squarely with us. Both as individuals and as a community interested in better health. This holds true specially in critical times when the uncertainties about possible break out of old and new infections looms large.

History, and research have highlighted the role of community ownership in bringing about lasting and sustainable change. From the Arab Spring, to MeToo, when people get involved at scale, big change gets sparked. Closer home, the systemic change that cooperatives have enabled, or more recently, jan bhagidari in the Swachh Bharat movement, have ensured that large scale change is not just a top-down policy owned agenda, ...