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Message From the Director |
While in Press
August 6, 2011
AICTE accords its approval to the Fellow Program in Health and Hospital Management
exclusively created at IIHMR, Jaipur - A first ever Fellow Program designed for
health sector in India.
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 ...Towards 2020
The Institute continues
to strive for excellence and achieve its
mission of improving standards of health of the people through high quality management research, education and capacity development
of the health professionals at the national and international level. It has emerged
globally as a unique model of an autonomous non-profit and self-financed organization
that is focused on a social sector, such as health, through research and education.
We take pride in having introduced a new
discipline of health management worldwide
and promoting research and human resource development in health policy analysis
and program management way back in 1984. We are proud of its work culture and organizational
ethos- transparency, openness, mutual trust, autonomy, accountability, shared responsibilities,
and opportunities for growth and development. This is the kind of ethos that characterizes
a typical learning organization.
We have significantly expanded
during the last decade and have successfully established two new campuses, at Delhi
and Bangalore. These campuses are fully functional. We boast of world class infrastructure,
which has grown phenomenally at all the campuses.
The Institute has conducted several research studies that have high impact on and
relevance to health policies and program strategies. It would not be prudent to
mention all those studies. However, some deserve immediate attention. The management
audit study of National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) in 1997-98 led to reorganization
and strengthening of the polio eradication activities in the country, and now the
dreaded poliomyelitis is at the verge of elimination in India; Independent assessment
of National Leprosy Eradication Program enabled the government to declare elimination
of leprosy in India; Evaluation of the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) II provided
vital inputs to shaping the NACP III strategies. The path-breaking community-based
10-year long Integrated Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Project in partnership
with the Government of Rajasthan and the German development agency KfW built a new
vision for safe drinking water in rural areas. We created
a successful and sustainable
model in the rural area which suffered from extreme scarcity of drinking water in
desert districts of Rajasthan. The Project has not only shown possibility of cost recovery through user charges for drinking water but has also set a new framework
for community participation and NGO management.
The Institute has made forays into the international arena. In collaboration with
the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, the
Institute continues to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health, Afghanistan
for developing a monitoring and evaluation system. Afghan Mortality Study that covered
over 30,000 households in difficult and risky areas of Afghanistan has made an international
mark. A health systems project, supported by DFID, has been initiated with the Department
of International Health and Institute of Development Studies, UK with partner institutions
in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Nigeria, and Uganda. The Institute signed MoUs
with Mahidol University, Bangkok, among other universities in South-East Asia, for
collaborative research and student and faculty exchange in order to build capacity,
especially in Public Health and Management. We signed a MoU with BP Koirala Institute
of Health Sciences, Nepal to build capacity in health management and provide support
in developing an MPH Program. The Institute is now an active partner in the South-East
Network of Public Health Education Institutions of WHO SEARO.
Developing human resources for health with management competencies and leadership
skills was at the core of the Institute's Mission. We embarked on developing and
designing short-term Management Development Programs to cater to the needs of health
professionals engaged in policy making and program management. The Institute became
the only organization in the health sector to offer such programs in India and South-East
Asia. MDPs were conducted on leadership and management development in health care,
health sector reforms, quality assurance, health management information systems,
communication planning and management for behavior change, result-based management,
management of health programs, and NGO management. A 10-week Professional Development
Course (PDC) for district-level health managers has been developed with the Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare (GOI) and NIHFW with the support of European Commission.
The PDC is expected to fulfill the need for skill development in management, public
health and health sector reforms in the country. The Institute also organized offshore
international MDPs in Afghanistan, Thailand, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh in collaboration
with SAARC, WHO, World Bank, IUATLD and other agencies.
We introduced the nation's first AICTE
approved and accredited postgraduate diploma
in hospital and health management, that became the top-ranking program in the country.
This was the first ever program that recognized that non-medical graduates can be
developed into professional hospital and health managers. The program has set high
standards of management education in the health sector. We take pride in creating
a critical mass of young professional managers in the health sector in the country.
It is not only the private and corporate worlds, but also the public sector which
has recruited these health and hospital management graduates. We believe they would
be the future leaders in the professional management of hospitals, health organizations
and pharmaceutical industry. The scintillating example of Gujarat health system's
transformation is largely attributed to the IIHMR students.
We added another two-year full-time program in Pharmaceutical Management to develop
professionals with comprehensive management and leadership skills along with technical
competencies relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. Recently, we have introduced
Rural Management to address the needs of the development sectors. Our students are
in great demand and we are proud of our alumni.
The decade 2011-20 begins this year. We have come a long way. Where do we go now
from here? 'Consistency is a virtue of mediocrity' said Emerson. We have kept innovating
and reinventing in teaching, research and training. We have our dreams to become
a world class Institute of learning and scholarship in management education, research
and capacity development in the health sector.
Our vision is clear – Go Global. We all in the management and faculty at the Institute
strongly feel that this is the time to launch ourselves in the next orbit. We already
have international partners and collaborators. We need to strengthen our ties, and
build new partnerships and collaboration with the national and international organizations.
We are closely working with SAARC, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, DFID, Futures Group, IUATLD
and other organizations. We already have collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health. We are in the process of setting up a MoU with Gulf Medical
University, and making move to have IIHMR in Africa.
We need to focus on building our own capacity through faculty development and preparing
human resources for research in health systems management and innovations in management
technologies in health care delivery. We need to create and share knowledge and
management technology in health systems. Innovations in teaching and training will
be crucial for effective and high quality health professionals. We need to keep
up with the advances in the new knowledge and technologies and incorporate them in teaching and training. IIHMR has a unique advantage of being a premier research
organization. Thus, the learning and its use in teaching and training will be used
with advantage.
We have a dream to set up IIHMR University. It will be unique in the health sector
with a focus on policy and program management research in the health and pharmaceutics,
and other emerging areas. IIHMR University will enable us to develop new academic
programs and enhance research opportunities. In addition, this will help us achieve
more autonomy and independence, and opportunities for more innovations in teaching
and research in the health sector. IIHMR Campus in Kolkata will soon be a reality.
We expect it to be operational in the next one or two years. Maybe, we go for more
campuses in the coming years, in India and abroad. IIHMR will expand its academic
portfolio by adding more programs relevant to professional needs as they emerge.
Already, we have submitted our application for Fellow Program, MPH and Postgraduate Diploma in Population and Reproductive Health Management. The other areas would
be information technology in health care. Our Delhi campus has already started this
specialization stream in the existing postgraduate program, and intends to make
it an independent full-time two-year postgraduate program.
All these activities, plans and vision indicate how committed we are to a bright
future of India, and how concerned we are to improved health standards of the people
of the country. We believe it is all doable : we will make it happen. AMEN!
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S D Gupta
MD, PhD, (Johns Hopkins) FAMS |
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