ICCIDD South Asia Regional Coordinator, Dr. Chandrakant S Pandav, and colleagues, have published an analysis of efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency in India and called for "an alternative approach and use a different set of agents to achieve universal salt iodization," in an article in the April 25 edition of Economic and Political Weekly.

Pandav et al endorse a multi-stakeholder coalition including the private sector. They conclude:

"It is obvious that in order to build permanent and sustainable solutions, we should stop procrastinating and take action to start a form of multi-stakeholder alliance addressing the most urgent issues. Until we do so, we may lose the intellectual capital of 13 milion newborn children every year."