TEAM 3D: Dreams, Desire & Destiny:  

https://www.team3d.org/overview.php 

Conceived in 2015 by Dr Deeksha Pandey, Team-3D started as a small group of like minded individuals who joined hands to spread awareness and talk about health issues people are shy or scared to talk about. In one year this concept attract many more and the group evolved as 'Team-3D" a Nationally Registered Not for Profit Organisation in November 2016. We strive to promote facts demystify myths and help create a healthier, bolder and more positive 'Gen Next'.

A group of highly motivated individuals from an array of professions ranging from Medicine to management unified by a common goal to make youth aware of practising safe sexual practices. We achieve this through Interactive workshops, fact files and workbooks, a documentary, a flash mob and a street play. We have also branched out to focus on older age groups to raise awareness about common health issues faced by people and bust myths and misconceptions surrounding them. Our founder and mentor Dr Deeksha Pandey has also authored two books aimed at addressing health issues faced by Indian women. Over 18 months, we have grown in leaps and bounds. We have over 120 volunteers and have organised 17 workshops in Manipal University and another out of state level workshop in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu where our most recent book launch occurred. We also have a research wing which is involved in Epidemiological research and conducts studies to better understand the prevalence and impact of these diseases in our society.

Vision: To educate, inspires and empowers people to take care of their health and wellbeing.

Mission: Our vision is to deliver health care related information to public in the most judicious, scientific, evidence based and balanced way by identifying and grooming the leaders among you.

Other facilities:

Counselling provided on sexual and genital health on a need to basis to the students with genital dermatoses and sexually transmitted diseases (Depts of Dermatology & Community Medicine)

The postgraduate students and the registrars in the Broad Specialty and Superspecialty programmes are eligible to claim maternity leave for upto 6 months.  

Dreams (for 13-18 years of age)

DREAMS: As the teen age starts, so starts a full world of curiosity inside us. Lot of dreams and lot of ambitions start sprouting. But not to forget this is also the age of a start of a different hormonal milieu, related physical changes and resultant emotional turbulence. This coupled with media exposure can affect the immature psychology of a child towards negativity. Parental support and counselling is of the most important need at this time of life. However in our culture most of the time either parents are ignorant, inexperienced or too busy to handle this situation with care. Schools and teachers are the second group that can come forward to cater these needs of pubertal minds. Unfortunately they lack the education/experience towards discussing these issues with children and as a results keep on ignoring it. Because someone has to come forward – Team-3D decided to take this challenge. We plan to hit at various levels that includes- school counsellors, teachers, parents and children. We plan to conduct tailored small group workshops / discussion to educate these each of these groups individually in a manner that is educative, effective and mild keeping in mind the delicate transition of these brains.

Desires (for 18-30 years of age)

DESIRES: Desires is the group who has just left the prison of home and has entered in a sky of freedom to soar high. But do they really mean what freedom is? What freedom can lead to, if not limited with conscious efforts? We in Team-3D are dedicated to divert this enormous energy, bubbling with desires towards creativity and positivity. We conduct tailored workshop for them educating them about the consequences of unsafe practices. We also give them a chance to be a part of us as volunteers or members to work for a cause which is very important yet highly ignored in our society. We motivate them to discuss and talk about their problems and mental states instead of struggling with their own internal fights and seeking the answers in 'Google guru' – which is full of information, unfortunately most of it is misinformation. From these minds which understand this concept and are inspired to work for it, we prepare leaders for future, so as to carry forward the flame of this emerging vital concept. 

Destiny (for 30 plus age group)

DESTINY: The equation which sets how well we have worked with our dreams and desires that decides our destiny. Our habits, our ignorance can sometimes make us prone to deadly diseases. But still there is time to change the course of events – that comes by understanding the ultimate future, aging, menopause/andropause and the health issues related to that. We conduct workshops to educate men and women for various screening strategies for prevention/early recognition of these issues. We also teach them about life style modification and coping up strategies for normal age related changes. We have also devised eight scoring systems compiled in a form of a workbook which people can use sitting at home without the need to go to the hospital. However we also make them aware that these workbooks (and apps- in the process of creation) are not an alternative to consulting a doctor. However this knowledge can be used as an adjunct to routine medical care.

Publications:

Ghosh, Supriti and Pattanshetty, Sanjay M and Mallya, Sneha D and Pandey, Deeksha and Guddattu, Vasudeva and Kamath, Veena G and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Satyamoorthy, K and Shetty, Ranjitha S (2021) Cervical cytology and associated factors among tribal women of Karnataka, India. PLos One, 16 (3). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1932-6203

Ghosh, Supriti and Pattanshetty, Sanjay M and Mallya, Sneha D and Pandey, Deeksha and Guddattu, Vasudeva and Kamath, Veena G and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Satyamoorthy, K and Shetty, Ranjitha S (2021) Cervical cytology and associated factors among tribal women of karnataka, India. PLos One, 16 (3). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1932-6203

Ghosh, Supriti and Pattanshetty, Sanjay and Mallya, Sneha D and Pandey, Deeksha and Guddattu, Vasudeva and Kamath, Veena G and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Satyamoorthy, K and Shetty, Ranjitha S (2021) Cervical cytology and associated factors among tribal women of Karnataka, India. PLos One, 16 (3). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1932-6203

Ghosh, Supriti and Mallya, Sneha D and Shetty, Ranjitha S and Pattanshetty, Sanjay M and Pandey, Deeksha and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Satyamoorthy, Kapaettu and Kamath, Veena G (2021) Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Towards Cervical Cancer and its Screening Among Women from Tribal Population: a Community-Based Study from Southern India. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 8. p. 1. ISSN 2196-8837

Pandey, Deeksha and Yevale, Aarti and Naha, Ritam and Kuthethur, Raviprasad and Chakrabarty, Sanjiban and Satyamoorthy, K (2021) Mitochondrial DNA copy number variation – A potential biomarker for early onset preeclampsia. Pregnancy Hypertension: An International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health, 23. pp. 1-4. ISSN 2210-7789

Adiga, Divya and Eswaran, Sangavi and Pandey, Deeksha and Sharan, Krishna T and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada (2021) Molecular landscape of recurrent cervical cancer. Critical Reviews in Oncology / Hematology, 157. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1040-8428

Bhat, Samatha and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Adiga, Divya and Fernandes, Rayzel and Shukla, Vaibhav and Bhandari, Poonam and Pandey, Deeksha and Sharan, Krishna and Satyamoorthy, K (2021) ZNF471 modulates EMT and functions as methylation regulated tumor suppressor with diagnostic and prognostic significance in cervical cancer. Cell Biology and Toxicology, 37. pp. 731-749. ISSN 0742-2091

Bhat, Samatha and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada and Adiga, Divya and Fernandes, Rayzel and Shukla, Vaibhav and Bhandari, Poonam and Pandey, Deeksha and Sharan, Krishna and Kapaettu, Satyamoorthy (2021) ZNF471 modulates EMT and functions as methylation regulated tumor suppressor with diagnostic and prognostic significance in cervical cancer. Cell Biology and Toxicology, 37. pp. 731-749. ISSN 0742-2091

Naha, Ritam and Anees, Akheel and Chakrabarty, Sanjiban and Naik, Punitkumar Shankar and Pandove, Megha and Pandey, Deeksha and Kapaettu, Satyamoorthy (2020) Placental mitochondrial DNA mutations and copy numbers in intrauterine growth restricted (IUGR) pregnancy. Mitochondrion, 55. pp. 85-94. ISSN 1567-7249

Padacherri, Vethil Jishnu and Pradyumna, Jayaram and Shukla, Vaibhav and Varghese, Vinay Koshy and Pandey, Deeksha and Sharan, Krishna and Chakrabarty, Sanjiban and Kapaettu, Satyamoorthy and Kabekkodu, Shama Prasada (2020) Prognostic role of 14q32.31 miRNA cluster in various carcinomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical and Experimental Metastasis, 37 (1). pp. 31-46. ISSN 0262-0898