IHS
Mission & Goals: |
Groom
Skills,
Gather Evidence and
Generate Knowledge for people's health.
To Improve the
Efficacy,
Quality & Equity
of Health Systems. |
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Public Health
Lectures at the IHS |
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Date |
Title |
Speakers |
18 Aug,
2003. |
The
Epidemic of Corruption in Health Services. |
Dr.
H. Sudarshan, Vigilance Director, Karnataka Loka Ayukta
(Health). |
06 Jun,
2003. |
The
Future of Primary Health Care. |
Prof.
Susan
Beth Rifkin, Professor,
Dept. of Health and Social Administration, London School of
Economics and Visiting Fellow at the
LSHTM. |
02 Mar, 2002. |
Reforming Health Systems: What
have we learned? |
Prof.
Peter A. Berman, Professor of Population & International Health Economics, Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston. |
25 Jan, 2001 |
Health Equity: a common challenge for health
systems globally. |
Dr. Timothy G
Evans, Director, Health Equity Program, The Rockefeller Foundation- New York. |
08 Dec, 2000 |
Role of Private Hospitals in Health Care. |
Dr.
Than Sein Director, Evidence and Information for Policy (EIP),
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO), Delhi. |
15 Nov, 2000. |
WHO and India in the new millennium. |
Dr.
Robert J. Kim-Farley, WR India. |
Tuberculosis control in India. Past experiences
and future challenges. |
Dr. Manjula Datta, Head of Dept. Epidemiology, MGR Medical University,
Chennai. |
04 May, 2000. |
Social or Private Health Insurance for India? |
Prof.
William Hsiao, HSPH. |
May 08 1999. |
Trends and challenges in global health and
health systems. |
Prof.
Christopher JL Murray, Dir, EIP, WHO-Geneva. |
1996 |
Community and Health Care in India. |
Dr. NH Antia, FRCH, Mumbai. |
Apr.14 1993. |
Comparing health systems and their financing.
What countries can learn from one another. |
Prof.
William Hsiao, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (HSPH). |
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One of the goals of the Institute
of Health Systems (IHS) is to build
local capacity for generation and use of evidence and information for health policy to
realise the broader goal of overall all socioeconomic development. The Institute conducts
health systems research on applied and operational issues to improve equity and efficiency
of the health care sector. IHS offers training programmes to improve
managerial skills and health system research capability in India. While seeking to develop
itself as a premier school of public health in India, the Institute has chosen a different
organisational path to sustain a high level of creativity and operational efficiency. IHS
is a civil society institution and has so far been entirely funded out of revenue
generated by its faculty and staff through sponsored research programmes, tuition fee
collections and other service charges. |
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Generating the
evidence and information base for health policy is necessary to
improve a community’s capacity to effectively deal with its health
care and related issues. But mere availability of research results
is not enough. A community must be able to use evidence and
information through its various formal and informal institutions.
Usage of evidence and information for policy is predicate on
awareness by general public and knowledge among the public health
community, of results from health system and related studies.
Towards this end, the IHS has been striving to provide opportunity
to persons interested in improvement of the Andhra Pradesh health
system to share and learn from the insights of top class
intellectuals and public health analysts. The Institute arranges
public health lectures, whenever there is an opportunity of having
the time from reputed health system researchers and health policy
analysts. Title of the lecture is identified in consultation with
the visiting public health analyst.
The public health lectures are open to any one interested in the
subject. Admission is free. The events are publicised through
posters and notices sent out to institutions in Hyderabad known to
be working on medical and health related issues, Universities and
Colleges. The event is usually listed in the engagements column of
local dailies. In addition, special invitations are sent out to
members of the IHS, public health officials, news media persons, and
opinion leaders in the medical and health community.
Duration of the lecture programme is usually two hours, but vary
according to specific needs and is usually moderated by an eminent
professional. After initial introductions, which last for about 15
minutes, the invited lecturer speaks on the chosen topic for about
45 minutes. The presentation is followed by a questions and answer
session, which may take up another 45 minutes. The session closes
with the moderator’s comments and vote of thanks to the visiting
lecturer. |
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