Nasir Yousufi

Twitter: @HussainYousuffi

This Indian bus is actually a high-security mobile laboratory

From the plains of Uttar Pradesh to cloud-skimming Himalayan villages, RAMBAAN, a Biosafety Level 3 lab on wheels, is chasing down the next big, bad bug.

8 Jan 2026

6 min read

An outside view of India’s one of the mobile BSL-3 lab, one of only two in India, parked up in Gorakhpur. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

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Health officials check the vaccine vials in one of India’s vaccine cold storage terminals in Keran in northern Kashmir.

An extremely important fridge: Keeping vaccines cool in remote Kashmir

27 Jan 2025

5 min read

Innovation

Workers cleaning water storage tanks in Vengoor. Credit: Vengoor Panchayat

Inside the storm: How soaring hepatitis A rates are affecting Kerala

12 Jul 2024

6 min read

Hepatitis

Poonam Pandey in 2022. Credit: By Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0

How a star’s staged death is shining the spotlight on cervical cancer in India

28 Mar 2024

6 min read

HPV

Bilquis Ara doing a regular health checkup of beneficiaries during an open air health camp in Nariabal village of district Kupwara. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Meet Bilquis Ara, one of Kashmir’s very best community health workers

7 Mar 2024

8 min read

Health worker heroes International Women's Day

Drones being used to spray anti-mosquito sprays in Kolkata to contain the spread of dengue. Credit: Gurwinder

Dengue spikes: the view from West Bengal

1 Dec 2023

5 min read

Dengue Climate change

Irshad Ahmad gives an oral vaccine to an infant at Health Subcentre in Naga village. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

“My fatigue disappears when I see their smiles”: A Himalayan vaccinator tells his story

31 Oct 2023

5 min read

Health worker heroes

A patient receives free medicines for Hepatitis-C treatment from a health facility in Punjab. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

How India is taking on a family of liver-killing viruses

13 Sep 2023

5 min read

Hepatitis

Health workers vaccinating a pregnant woman in the mountains after trekking on foot for more than six hours. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

How Bakarwal nomads get vaccinated on Kashmir’s mountain meadows

11 Aug 2023

6 min read

Routine immunisation Vaccine campaigns

A paramedic administering mandatory polio drops to a Haj pilgrim at Haj House in Jammu & Kashmir’s Srinagar. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Sacred and safe: How the Hajj gets vaccinated

1 Jun 2023

5 min read

Pandemic preparedness

An order from District Disaster Management Authority in Faridabad district of Haryana has again made the wearing of face-masks mandatory in crowded places. Credit: Nasir Yousufi

Down – not out: COVID-19 cases surge in India

21 Apr 2023

5 min read

COVID-19

Health worker SulemanSuleman, with vaccines and other medical aid, on the path to Itchoo amidst snow and ice. Credit: Block Medical Office, Sankoo.

Himalayan vaccinators brave the elements to ensure every last family in a remote Indian village is reached

4 Apr 2023

5 min read

Routine immunisation

The world’s first intranasal COVID-ovid 19 vaccine being carried to different parts of the country days after its official launch on 26th January. Credit: Bharat Biotech

Can the “world’s first intranasal COVID vaccine” help spur booster uptake in India?

16 Feb 2023

5 min read

COVID-19 Vaccine development

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