The Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) is in dialogue with the government of Afghanistan to bid for another round of the project after the success of the Afghanistan Mortality Survey. The institute is keen to monitor and evaluate the health system and chip in its expertise to rebuild the health services and improving health status of the people in the country.
The institute has signed an MoU with the Afghanistan Center for Training and Development to strengthen research, training and consultancy services in health management areas in Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan Morality Survey conducted by IIHMR is a unique model of large scale nationwide survey that provides the latest and the most authentic health information about Afghanistan. IIHMR has also conducted program evaluations of TB Prevention and control, HIV/AIDS, Leprosy, Malaria, and Blindness and has made significant contributions in strategies, reorganisation of programme implementation mechanism design and monitoring systems.
IIHMR has made significant contributions in health systems research, capacity building and creating a critical mass of professionally trained managers for health systems, stated Dr. SD Gupta, president, IIHMR University.
According to ML Mehta, chairman of IIHMR University “we have been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for district health system based on primary health care. It has created a wide network of research and academic institutes interested in public health research and management”.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Geneva has selected IIHMR as the only Project Management Unit in the State of Rajasthan to implement the Food Fortification Project. Under the project IIHMR has signed MoUs with various dairy companies, edible oil brands and wheat flour brands which have extensively benefited more than 8.5 million individuals on a monthly basis through milk fortification and more than 80,000 individuals through wheat flour fortification. To generate awareness on Food Fortification and its benefits, IIHMR has conducted sensitisation program for over 250 doctors.
Further, the Union government has also identified us as a collaborating institute for conducting 10 weeks Professional Development Course (PDC) in Management, Public Health and Health Sector Reforms for District Medical Officers and more than 235 doctors of Rajasthan have been trained under this course. Recently, with support from WHO, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India nominated 92 officials to undergo one-month training on “Public Private Partnership in Health” at IIHMR Jaipur. Apart from this, we have conducted management research for improving maternal and child health programmes, adolescent health programmes, reproductive health programmes and other National Health Programmes, said Professor Sodani, Dean, IIHMR University.