Figure-2: The IHS receipts by broad area of activities

Accounts and Audit Report:

           The audited accounts of the Institute for the year 2009-10 have been enclosed. I now request you to consider the same and give your approval with suggestions if any.

           Finally I thank you for having spared the time to participate in this meeting. Your presence is a great inspiration to me, and my colleagues.

          I would now request you to consider this report and give your valuable advise and guidance for further development of the Institute. We would like to assure you that we will do our best to translate your ideas and suggestions into action.

Annex -1

Faculty and Personnel Profile

Full Time Faculty

G Surendra, Director

           Mr G.Surendra holds a Post Graduate Degree in Statistics from Sri Venkteswara University, Tirupati. He received Gold Medal for highest scoring of marks in his graduation. He has a rich work experience contributing his professional skills for the social development of the rural mass in Andhra Pradesh for more than 10 years(1984-1995) in implementing beneficiary oriented programmes, literacy programmes, promoting family planning among rural poor, employment guarantee programmes, organizing the BPL families into cooperative farming societies etc., His first stint was in Vital Statistics for improvement of Registration of Births and Deaths as a statistician in Public Health dept(1976-1979). He implemented Health Information Infrastructure projects like Tele-Education, Tele-Medicine and facilitated many CME programmes. He implemented Tele-Ophthalmology in Primary and Secondary eye care centers in L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI). As part of Health Informatics, he evaluated Electronic Medical / Health records and recommended suitable product for implementation besides his contribution to Bio-Medical Equipment Technology and developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for accreditation under NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals). He got wide experience in conducting socio economic surveys (1995-97), conducted a major survey viz "Multipurpose Household Survey (MPHS) for Government of Andhra Pradesh and built huge database of key indicators, covering entire population of Andhra Pradesh. He got wide administrative experience while working in both Government and Private sector and got rich experience in programme monitoring and evaluation. Earlier, he worked on various state information infrastructure projects as General Manager AP Technology Services (1998-2005).

Satish Kumar Kannapa, Faculty

            Dr. Satish Kumar K holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Biology from the Osmania University. Dr. Satish is currently working as a Faculty at the Institute of Health Systems (IHS), a non-profit health systems research organization. Earlier, he worked as a Program Manager: Communication & Knowledge Management at India HIV/AIDS Alliance, Andhra Pradesh which works to build and link existing capacity and expertise in HIV/AIDS prevention and care within the NGO sector in Andhra Pradesh. Prior to that he was part of the Research & Development initiative at the Byrraju Foundation. Before that, he was with MARCH (Marketing Consultancy & Research), an affiliate of ICFAI as Domain Head, Health care & Pharma Research Division. Dr. Satish was a Research Assistant in the Forestry & Ecology Division of National Remote Sensing Agency, Department of Space, Government of India. He was a recipient of the Senior Research Fellowship, sponsored by CSIR, New Delhi. He was awarded a Gold Medal for best scientific paper presentation titled "Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution" at the 24th AP State TB & Chest Diseases Worker's Conference in 1997.

              At the IHS, he carried out research and consultancy projects in the areas of environmental health, demography, and road traffic crashes. He coordinated a District Family Health Survey, undertaken to estimate IMR, MMR & Fertility Rates at the district and sub district levels. This study was designed to gather evidence for small area mortality analysis and area specific planning. Dr. Satish was Co-Investigator in the "Indoor Air Pollution Exposure Atlas" (IAPEA) study, designed to develop a methodology for predicting quantitative exposures to IAP from qualitative information on fuel use and housing characteristics to construct an exposure atlas. He was the Principal Investigator for the "Health Effects Analysis & Economic Valuation" components of the Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) India Project, initiated by the USAID & US EPA. This study was aimed at achieving multiple - economic, public health & environmental benefits. He was also Principal Investigator for a research study titled "Epidemiology of Road Traffic Accidents in Hyderabad City", designed to understand the epidemiology of risk factors associated with high level of road traffic accidents in Hyderabad. This study was under the aegis of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). He served as a Resource Person for Several Training Programs conducted by IHS. He was the chief rapporteur of the IHS public health symposium held on World Health Day on "Shielding our Children from Accidents" in 2003 and "Road Safety: Let’s Act Before its Too Late" in 2004. He has published several research papers in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Satish attended a special workshop on "International Air Pollution & Energy Climate Policy Collaboration" held during the Joint 12th ISEE / ISEA Conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in August 2002. He attended an International Symposium on "Socioeconomic Factors & Air Pollution Health Effects" held during the 15th Conference of the International Society of Epidemiology (ISEE) held at Perth, Australia in September 2003. He also attended a Training Session on Air Pollution & Public Health and a Training Workshop on Co-benefits Analysis, held at Beijing, China in November 2003. He served as Advisory Committee Member for Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on "Assessment of Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases".

Consultants:

Dr Sai Shankar Pratap

        Dr. Sai Shankar Prathap holds an MD in Community Medicine from Guntur Medical College. He is currently an Associate Professor in Community Medicine. Earlier he worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) as Surveillance Medical Officer in the National Polio Surveillance Project; AP State AIDS Control Society (APSACS) as Monitoring and Evaluation Officer for PPTCT (Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS) Program under the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria - Round II (GFATM-Round II); and Byrraju Foundation led Andhra Pradesh Initiative as a Research Manager. He has carried out research studies on verbal autopsy and rational use of drugs. He also served as a resource person for building capacity in PSBH (Problem Solving for Better Health), safe injection and waste disposal practices and verbal autopsy. He is currently involved in cause of death studies at IHS.

Dr K V Satyanarayana Murty

       Dr Satyanarayana Murty holds a MD degree in Social & Preventive Medicine from University of Health Sciences, Andhra Pradesh. He is currently working as Professor of Social & Preventive Medicine, Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad. As a consultant to ICDS when it was still a central program, Dr Murty has done field evaluation, analysis and reporting of ICDS activities in Kurnool district in 1992 - 1993. He has been a trainer in Universal Immunization Progran for PHC Medical Officers of Kurnool and Anantapur Districts in 1992. Dr Murty has investigated several outbreaks of diseases like Japanese Encephalitis (Anantapur district 1993), Fevers of unknown origin (East Godavari Tribal belt 1996), Gullian Barre syndrome (West Godavari district, 2003 - 2004) and Gastro enteritis outbreak (Bholakpur, Hyderabad (2009). He has contributed substantially to the AP Gastroenteritis Manual published by IHS. Dr Murty was the Lead evaluator of world Bank funded NPCB in one tribal district of Madhya Pradesh in 1999. He also worked as consultant to UNICEF in Border District Cluster Strategy (Adilabad District) in 2001- 2002. He was a member of Thesis committee of Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad from 2000 to 2002. Dr Murty has guided more than a dozen theses submitted by doctoral students in Social & Preventive Medicine. He is currently involved in IGNOU project guidance for students of PG Diploma in Maternal & Child Health and also in verbal autopsy of cause of death studies being done by IHS.

B L Srikanthi

        B.L.Srikanthi holds a Masters Degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning ( Deemed University ), Anantapur. She has good academic record and received Gold Medal for securing highest percentage of marks in her graduation. A part of her post graduation thesis entitled "Effect of mulberry leaves (Morus Indica L) therapy on plasma and erythrocyte membrane lipids in patients with Type II diabetes" was awarded the best paper of the year by Indian Pharmacological Society in the year 2000. She has 8 years of Teaching and Research Experience. She has successfully coordinated different qualitative and quantitative research studies in different parts of Andhra Pradesh, focusing on maternal and child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS among vulnerable populations. She worked with several National and International Agencies like CARE INDIA , Population Council, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Important research studies which she successfully coordinated include "Strategic Impact Inquiry" of CARE India’s intervention program on sex workers at East Godavari District. This was a Global Study conducted simultaneously in six countries, centrally coordinated by CARE ATLANTA with technical support from ICRW and the Indian study was coordinated by her. She also handled similar studies like "Understanding Sex Workers’ Reproductive Health Rights, their Access to Services", " Outcome Evaluation of Frontiers HIV/AIDS Prevention Program in India ": She has earlier worked with Institute of Health Systems , Academy for Nursing Studies, Osmania University College for women and CARE Visakhapatnam in various capacities involving in academics, research studies and intervention programs. Her research areas of & Health surveys, psychological and social factors related to HIV/AIDS among interest include Nutrition women and children.     

Voluntary & Visiting Faculty:

Prasanta Mahapatra

          Dr. Prasanta Mahapatra, President of the Institute is a physician civil servant. He is a Takemi Fellow in International Health and has a doctorate in International Health and Economics from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently the Commissioner of Enquiries of the Government of Andhra Pradesh.. Dr. Mahapatra established, for government of AP, the first University of Health Sciences (APUHS) in India, at Vijayawada and became its first Registrar. As Registrar of the APUHS and Director Medical Education, he was responsible for state wide co-ordination and management of tertiary hospitals and medical education services. He was Commissioner, Commissionerate of Medical Services (AP Vaidya Vidhana Parishad), Joint/Addl Secretary Health in Govt. of AP. The health system development projects in various states funded by the World Bank based on the work done by Dr. Mahapatra in Andhra Pradesh. As collector of Nellore, he introduced a collectors office manual, streamlined the public grievance redressal system, conceived and implemented land development projects integrating cadastral survey with soil conservation concepts. He has experience in disaster distress relief management, rural development, general administration and information technology applications in government. Between 1991-1993 he was an International Health Policy Program Fellow and a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research work, during this period, included measurement of public hospital performance, accreditation systems for health care organisations, traditional and herbal medicine etc. Dr. Mahapatra has been a member of the Harvard Burden of Disease Unit from its inception and contributed to the Global Burden of Disease estimates published in the World Bank’s World Development Report, 1993. As a faculty in the Administrative Staff College of India, he started a study to estimate burden of disease in AP. He has written books and published articles in research journals. His work include, the book on Estimating National Burden of Diseases, Structure and Dynamics of Private Health Sector, Malaria and GE Manuals, research papers on Cause of Death Reporting System, Health State Valuation, Summary Measures of Population Levels, Health Systems Performance Assessment and Patient Satisfaction Survey. He teaches, mathematics, biostatistics, epidemiology, research methodology, health care management, and health informatics