Visualizing India’s Public Health Infrastructure

Earlier this year, I was introduced to information visualization during my second semester at the National Institute of Design. The course was led by Prof. Chakradhar Saswade who guided us — his students — through our projects and connected us with professionals in the industry like Amit Kapoor and Prachi Nagpal.

During this course, COVID-19 had already entered India and there were questions about how it would affect the population and the health sector. These questions included: - Is India’s public health infrastructure equipped to handle an epidemic? - Are the public hospitals in India capable of keeping up with…