Partnering to

Strengthen the

Indian Health

System

Vision

Strengthen India’s health system through collaborative research.

Mission

Build and provide an interdisciplinary platform for collaborative research to generate evidence for policy interventions on challenges confronting the country’s health system within the national and global context and to strengthen capacity for health systems research.
Research

We conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary health systems research to generate evidence on issues that are pertinent to health policy making in India.

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Capacity Building

Our continued commitment towards nurturing new talent sets us apart. We build and strengthen the technical capacity of researchers.

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Policy Engagement

We facilitate engagement between researchers, health systems, decisionmakers and the agents of change in the public health sector to ensure that the research agenda is aligned to policy requirements.

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Research

We conduct collaborative and interdisciplinary health systems research to generate evidence on issues that are pertinent to health policy making in India.
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Capacity Building

Our continued commitment towards nurturing new talent sets us apart. We build and strengthen the technical capacity of researchers.
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Policy Engagement

We facilitate engagement between researchers, health systems, decisionmakers and the agents of change in the public health sector to ensure that the research agenda is aligned to policy requirements.
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Research Partners

Tamil Nadu

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Research

  1. Economic Costing of Health and Wellness Centres under Ayushman Bharat: A case study of Gujarat

  2. Innovations in Primary Healthcare in India

  3. Financing Novel Diabetes Prevention Management Models

  4. Innovations in Primary Healthcare in India: Cases of Tamil Nadu and Haryana

  5. Process Evaluation of Publicly Funded Health Insurance Scheme in India
  1. Prescription practices in health systems and root cause analysis- public and private and effect on the rational use of medicine

  2. Assess the availability and affordability of NCD/non NCD medicines in non-metropolitan urban & rural India

  3. Assessment of gaps in PM-JAY insurance information systems in the context of global best practices

  4. Assessment of utilization patterns under PM-JAY & their correspondence with Indian global burden of disease

  5. Implementation research to assess the capacity of HWCs to deliver comprehensive primary care services

  6. Benefit Incidence Analysis for PM-JAY in an Indian State

  7. Effectiveness of provider contracting under PM-JAY (access, financial protection)

  8. Resource allocation & expenditure targets for realizing the SDG 3.8 goals at a State level

  9. Assessment of the current burden of service delivery on ASHAs/ANMs and the potential role of Multipurpose Health Worker in task sharing

  10. Determining the impact of varying incentive structures (financial and non-financial) to CHWs and their impact on worker performance & motivation

  11. Analyzing policy framework, strategies, & existent bottlenecks for realizing SDG 3 targets at State level

  12. Determining the role of community engagement in the design of primary care models addressing NCDs

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Members
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A. Venkat Raman Faculty of Management Studies,
University of Delhi

“IHSC hopes to bridge the research-policy-practice triad. Health system researchers of all hues may find this platform exciting to network, ideate, collaborate and involve in generating evidence and in improving the country’s health system. Let us join hands.”

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Indrani Gupta Professor and Head, Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

“IHSC’s uniqueness is its promise to address research areas that get overlooked. Collaboration and cooperation determine topic selection, research and sharing of results. IHSC provides a platform to generate evidence that can be used to positively impact health system reforms.”

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Indranil Mukhopadhyay Assoc Prof at School of Government and Public Policy, Jindal Global University

"IHSC is a home for young and experienced researcher minds to join hands for ideating about India's Health System, listen and be heard and together strive for better health, better tomorrow."

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Mayur Trivedi Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar

“IHSC will provide opportunities for constructive partnerships for research and advocacy through collective efforts, structured mentoring, and capacity building efforts, especially to the young Indian researchers. I believe it has the potential to flourish into a productive and meaningful institution.”

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Sarit Kumar Rout Additional Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar

"Hope this initiative makes untiring efforts to nurture talents, promote independent thinking, create impartial knowledge through apposite diagnosis and provide evidence-based solutions to build health systems especially in neglected areas."

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Subodh Kandamuthan Professor and Director, Centre for Health Care Management, ASCI, Hyderabad

"The IHSC is a fantastic initiative to bring together researchers and institutions from Pan India working in Health Systems. The research conducted by this initiative is going to be beneficial for the Health Departments in the country.”

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Vamsi Krishna Boyanagari Co-Lead, Health Financing & UHC Cluster, Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru

"IHSC is a great platform which brings senior and young researchers from different institutions together to conduct policy-relevant. It will help in collaborating with public and private institutions to study, analyse, design and solve complex health systems issues."

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V R Muraleedharan Professor, Centre for Technology and Policy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

"I am confident that the initiatives of IHSC will create a new generation of researchers with new skills and perspectives committed to strengthen health systems research in India, and engage more meaningfully and effectively with policy-making processes in the future."

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Umakant Dash Professor & Head, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Madras

"Thank you for the initiative to bring the researchers, practitioners and policymakers together to understand, analyse and recommend some concrete steps to make the health system more responsive. I am delighted to be a member of the research consortium."

Current Partners

Upcoming
Events

May, 2021

Dates to be announced shortly

Webinar: Implications for Health
Financing during COVID-19

Sep, 2021

Dates to be announced shortly

Webinar: Health Systems Assessment