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Groom Skills,
Gather
Evidence and
Generate Knowledge for
people's health.
To Improve the Efficacy,
Quality & Equity
of Health Systems. |
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Visiting
Faculty
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Prasanta Mahapatra
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Dr.
Prasanta Mahapatra with his unique
combination of academic schooling in
medicine, public administration, public
health policy and economics has been
liberally contributing in all the areas of
his study. Dr. Mahapatra is a
distinguished civil servant, public health
scientist, dedicated public health worker,
institution builder, and information
technology enthusiast. As a civil servant he held various positions
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health as well as in other
departments like rural development, tribal welfare
and information technology. His commitment to social
justice and rural development was evident early in
his career. While working as a Sub collector, he
came across the practice of bonded labour still
prevalent in Irakam island in the year 1983, i.e.
nearly a decade after the bonded labour abolition
act was passed. He camped in the island till
investigation and trial of all cases under the
bonded labour act was completed, release
certificates issued and the offenders appropriately
dealt under the law. He continued to follow up the
released families, despite the administrative
changes in his posting, for five years till the
released families were fully rehabilitated. He
contributed to revival of cooperative farming
societies in Nellore district, mainly to benefit
large number of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe
families.
He was the first registrar of the
first University of Health Sciences (APUHS) in
India, Director of Medical Education, Commissioner
of Medical Services, Additional Secretary Health in
government of Andhra Pradesh. He has tenaciously
pursued excellence in each of these positions. Two
of his many contributions in the field of health
stand out as extraordinary and well beyond the
ordinary call of his duties. These are; (a) the
health system development projects in the country,
and (b) visualization and building of the Institute
of Health Systems (IHS).
Dr. Mahapatra is a pioneer in the
field of Health Systems Development. In the post
Alma Ata era, primary health care was erroneously
confused with primary health centres and sub centres
alone. So much so that any form of health system
development involving hospitals was taboo. In this
policy environment, he drew attention of policy
makers to first referral hospital services,
recognized its importance in primary health care and
argued for substantial increase of investments in
middle level hospitals. While commissioner of Andhra
Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP) he developed
the Health Systems Development Project in AP. There
after he spent two years researching in Harvard
University about measurement of public hospital
performance and allocation of government health
expenditure among primary, secondary and tertiary
health care institutions. Results of his research
contributed to positive evaluation of the health
system development project proposal, by the World
Bank. Government of India Ministry of Health
circulated the Andhra Pradesh health system
development project idea among other state
governments for their consideration. Dr. Prasanta
Mahapatra’s vision about the need and importance
of health systems strengthening during the late 80s
and early 90s has today resulted in Health Systems
Development projects in about seven states involving
combined investments of about 4000 crore rupees. A
study on Hospital Autonomy in India, in which the
APVVP was taken as a case study, has attributed the
success of its establishment to the leadership of
Dr. Mahapatra when he was commissioner, APVVP. The
strong foundation laid by Dr. Mahapatra
evolved the first referral hospitals in AP to its
present stage.
Institute of Health Systems (IHS), is
primarily the brainchild of Dr. Mahapatra. As early
as the 1980s he recognized the importance of health
system research to generate required evidence and
information for health policy. The Institute was set
up in 1990, by him and a group of like minded
persons in Hyderabad, with varied background but a
common interest in improvement of the country’s
health status. Dr. Mahapatra’s farsightedness can
be judged from the fact that the World Health
Organisation launched its program on evidence and
information for policy around the year 2000 and has
an active program to improve health system
performance. The IHS is unique in many respects.
It’s multidisciplinary approach to study of health
sector problems seeks to harness the skills from
different areas to improve the efficacy of the
health sector. This non profit Institution is run on
self financing basis and does not receive any grant
in aid. The IHS generates its funds through its
research, training and consultant activities. In a
short span of 12 years since its inception, the
Institute has developed to be one of the largest
health system research institutions in the world,
and promises to be a leading school of public health
in the country. The phenomenal growth and
development of the IHS is primarily due to Dr.
Mahapatra’s sustained commitment, dynamic and
proficient guidance. To realize his dream of a such
an Institution, Dr. Mahapatra, spent about six years
of his career to prepare himself to provide the
required academic guidance. Towards this end, he
joined, in 1994, the Ph.D. degree program in public
health policy and economics, in the Harvard
University and earned the degree in 2000. He has
already committed five years of his career, working
full time in the IHS as its Director, on deputation
from his civil service position, to build up the
Institution. Today, the IHS is recognized as a
premier centre of health system research in India as
well as the South and East Asian Region. The IHS is
the only centre in the South and East Asian region
with substantial expertise in national burden of
disease studies. Recognising this, the Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR) chose the
Institute to train its scientists in burden of
disease study methodology and research on causes of
death. The Institute’s research capacity has been
utilised by the state government of Andhra Pradesh
and the Central Government. For example; IHS was
commissioned by the Government of India Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare to estimate burden of
disease among women and children in India, and to
study the dynamics of private health sector. The
Institute has been commissioned by the Government of
Andhra Pradesh to assist in development of health
sector strategy and preparation of action plan for
reproductive health services and sector reform.
Dr. Mahapatra’s contribution
as a member of WHO committee of experts on
measurement and classification for health and as
part of Harvard Burden of Disease unit is widely
acknowledged. He worked on estimation of burden of
disease in AP and has trained a large cadre of
individuals in this methodology. He has many
publications in National and International
journals, in the area of Burden of disease, Public
Health, Cause of Death, Hospital performance
analysis, private heath sector, rural development,
information technology, modernisation of
administration, etc. He has been actively involved
in policy making at the international, national
and state levels. He has also been consultant and
advisor for WHO on various issues.
As mentioned earlier he
maintained his unbiased contribution to all his
fields of study. Dr. Mahapatra continues to work
with vigor to realize the Vision set for I H S. Dr.
Mahapatra is currently the President of IHS,
Hyderabad.
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V
Raman Kutty
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Dr.
V Raman Kutty, holds a Masters in Public Health from
the Harvard University (1988), another Masters in
Applied Economics from
the JNU (1987) and MD in Paediatrics. He has been a
member of the ICMR-ICSSR joint panel on health from
1993, Task force of
the Kerala state planning board on health (1987,
1996). He has been a consultant to the World Bank,
Govt. Of India Ministry of Health, the DFID-India, and
the European Commission, Dryefus Foundation New York,
Kerala Research Program for Local level development,
on various public health issues. He was formerly,
Associate Professor in Achutha Menon Centre for Health
Science Studies, at
the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences
and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum. Dr. Raman Kutty
has conducted a wide
range of public health research and has published many
journal articles. His research works cover;
epidemiology of non
communicable diseases, communicable diseases,
socioeconomic determinants of health and mortality,
health seeking behaviour,
reproductive and child health programs, and health
sector reform. Dr. Raman Kutty is currently the
Executive Director of
Health Action by People (HAP), which is a nonprofit
organisation conducting original research in areas of
public health. HAP is
liked to the Dreyfus Health Foundation, New York, and
facilitates health information access and diffusion
among professionals, organises
workshops and seminars on research methodology and
intervention programs in health. It networks with NGOs
for initiating action
programs and actively participates in policy debates
in health.
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Sundeep
K Naik
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Mr.
Sundeep K Naik is a distinguished civil servant
from the Jammu and Kashmir cadre of the Indian
Administrative Service
and an accomplished academician. A gold medalist
from IIT, Kharagpur with a Masters in Science.
He holds additional
Masters Degree on Population and Development
from the London School of Economics, and yet
another Masters in International Policy Studies
from the Monterey Institute Of International
Studies, USA. He has attended The Maxwell School
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teaching
and writing public policy cases, the Executive
Management Program on
Infrastructure Development and Financing at the IIM,
Ahmedabad and many other programs on public
administration and training
technology. He taught Public Administration to Indian
Administrative Service Officers, at the LBS National
Academy of Administration
and has directed many courses for civil servants. He
was instrumental in strengthening of State Training
Institutions by
developing a module on negotiations for the GOI-UNDP
project. His areas of interest include demography,
population policy, negotiation,
gender studies, and empowerment of women. He is
contributing as an expert, in the area of gender,
health, population and
development, for preparation of the Jammu and Kashmir
State Development report by the Planning Commission of
India. Mr. Naik
has volunteered his time at the IHS and has taught
demography and population policy in the Advanced
Studies in Public Health
Program. He is currently posted as Secretary to the
Chairman, National Commission for the Youth.
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Srilatha
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Mrs. Srilatha has done M.A. (Social
Science) from Osmania University and B. Sc. (Nursing)
from College of Nursing, Hyderabad, University of
Health Sciences. She was a Takemi Fellow at the
Harvard School of Public Health, US from 2001-2002.
She is a recipient of the USAID award for outstanding
performance in the Nursing. She worked as Faculty in
Quality Assurance in the Institute of Health Systems,
Hyderabad. She was trained on health policy analysis
and development programmes on policy formulation
process from IIM Ahmedabad. She was also trained in
ICD 10 by WHO in Srilanka. She has completed the
online course on Human participants Protection
Education for Research Teams, sponsored by National
Institute of Health (NIH-2002). She has provided
consultancy services to Administrative Staff College
of India, for the project TIFAC - Health sponsored by
DST, Government of India for about one and half year.
Her area of interest include accreditation of
hospitals, preparation of standards, quality assurance
in health care organisation, reproductive and child
health, patient satisfaction surveys, Cause of death
& Verbal autopsy. She has wide experience in
training. She has been directing a two week training
program titled "Managing Primary Health Care in
Remote areas. Her papers and publications include
quality assurance in nursing, and quality of
reproductive health care provided in private
hospitals, patient satisfaction surveys and
accreditation.
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Easo
John
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Dr. Easo John is an alumnus
of Madras Christian College and has received his
MBA and Ph.D, from the Kellog School of
Management, USA. He was a Fullbright scholar and
a Fellow of the Ford Foundation. He has held
high executive positions in the Government of
India and in industry. He has been closely
associated with reputed nonprofit organizations
including the Christian Medical College, Vellore.
He is a also the author of the "Handbook on
Management of Non Profit Organizations".
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Amar
Jesani
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Amar Jesani is a member of Board of
Trustees/Governing Board of the CEHAT (Centre for
Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes), a health
research and action NGO institute in Mumbai and Pune,
India. He is a medical graduate from Baroda Medical
College, Vadodara, Gujarat, and has been doing social
science research in health since 1979. He has been
involved in research (19 major projects so far) and
teaching/training in Health and Development,
Bio-ethics, Ethics in social sciences, Health and
human rights, health policies in India and Gender and
Medical Education. Presently he is associated with
Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (Trivandrum),
Department of Politics and Civics (Mumbai University,
Mumbai), Indian Council of Medical Research (New
Delhi), Samraksha/Samuha (Bangalore), UP Social and
Philosophy Research Foundation (the Philippines),
SAKHI, (Trivandrum) and Institute of Health Systems (Hyderabad)
as a faculty or a visiting faculty and/or a resource
person and consultant in the above subjects of his
interest.
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A.
Venkaiah
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Mr.Venkaiah has a degree in
public finance and economics and is professional
trainer. He successfully completed an advanced
programme on "Training for Trainers"
conducted by the University of Manchester, UK,
and was awarded a certificate in Training and
development by the Institute of Training and
Development, UK. Earlier he was senior faculty
member in the Accounts Training College, and
Institute of Administration of the government of
Andhra Pradesh. Currently Mr.Venkaiah is a
freelance faculty and resource person. His areas
of strength include public administration,
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Dayakar
Thota
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Prof. (Lt.Col) Dayakar Thota, holds a masters degree in
Hospital Administration (MHA) from the University
of Poona. He did M.Sc. (Defence Sciences) from
Madras University. He graduated in Medicine and
Surgery (MBBS) from Kakatiya Medical College,
Warangal, Osmania University. He passed staff
college from Defence Services Staff College (D S S
C), Wellington and undergone training as Lead
Quality Assessor from A Q A, Hyderabad. He was in
Private Medical Practice at Peddapalli (A P).
After taking voluntary retirement
from Army in 1994, he had held many important Medico -
administrative appointments such as M S of
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, ECO,
Lokmanya Hospital, Chinchwad, Pune, Additional
Director, Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Lodhivali,
Consultant to M G M Medical College Hospital,
Aurangabad & Ellen Hospital, Coimbatore etc.
He was Professor & Head of the department of
Hospital Administration at NIMS, Hyderabad and MAHE,
Manipal and P G Examiner in Hospital Administration
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H David
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Dr. L.H.David holds a degree in Medicine from
Christian
Medical
College
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Vellore
and a Masters degree in Public Health from
University
of
North Carolina
. He was a Fullbright Scholar and a Merit Scholar of
the Government of
Uttar Pradesh. He was formerly Faculty and Chair, Centre for Social Services, Administrative Staff
College of India. He has designed a number of training
programmes for health managers and civil servants. He
has completed over 40 consultancies in health care
management, organizational development, program
evaluation and capacity building for central and state
governments and international agencies such as the
World Bank, DANIDA, UNFPA and Ford Foundation. He has
served on a number of central government and state
government policy making bodies. He currently serves
as the Chief Consultant of the
Institute
of
Health Systems
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