Government to make Kolkata’s All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health top forum for policy discourse
Kolkata: The government plans to revive the Kolkata-based All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIHPH), transforming it into a world-class ‘School of Public Health’ and regain space ceded to private think tanks such as Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in public policy discourse, said two officials aware of the developments.
This follows a government review which found that private institutes have of late become the face of India’s public policy space, diminishing the role of the government’s own public health institutes.
“The public health policy space should in the hands of the government and not in the control of private bodies, and NGOs. Hence, the plan is to revive government’s own All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in Kolkata. The proposal is being drafted and soon be submitted to the health minister,” one of the officials said, requesting anonymity.
“The plan is to transform All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health into world class ‘School of Public Health’ which will have 20 departments related to public health subjects. As of now, we are having 11 departments in place. Nine more futuristic public health departments are very much required considering the present times. We have proposed geographic information systems (GIS)/Artificial Intelligence department, international health department, Health economics department, health financing department, demography and population study department,” the second official said, adding the Indian school would be similar to international schools of public health in the US and London.
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