IPH presentations at Health Systems Research Symposium at Cape Town, South

1. IPH is honoured to facilitate participation of the Hon’ble Health Minister of Karnataka, Mr U T Khadar, in a panel discussion on “Advancing the application of systems thinking in health” on 2nd October 2014.

In the symposium the Health Minister will release a special issue on “Advancing the application of systems thinking in health” carrying an article about capacity-building of health managers in Tumkur, Karnataka, India

2. Movie: India chapter of a documentary movie “Switching the Poles” has been selected for Health systems research symposium. The documentary was filmed at the end of 2013 to showcase the institutional collaborations between India and Belgium under the ITM-DGD Framework Agreement. Movie is scheduled to be screened on 3rd of October 2014, at 9.30 am -11.00 am.
3. Emerging Voices brings together young researchers as individuals and as a group in an effort of collective learning, sharing experiences and presenting research. IPH is a Co-organiser of the emerging voices

a. Anil Hittlamani who is selected as one of the Emerging Voices has an oral presentation on “How people-centred is India’s National Health Insurance Scheme (RSBY): Lessons from a study on Social exclusion in Karnataka, India.”

Authors: Anil MH , Seshadri T, Gayatri Ganesh, Thriveni BS , Mahesh SK, Pati MK, Devadasan N

4.Prashanth NS representing IPH as a member on panel discussion on “Realist evaluation and other theory-driven inquiry approaches in health policy and systems research: a hands-on troubleshooting workshop” on 1st October 2014.

Prashanth NS is also presenting a poster titled: “Unpacking individual, institutional and organizational behaviour in health managers: Results of a realist evaluation of capacity-building in south India” on 1st October 2014.

5. Gayatri Ganesh is presenting on “Social exclusion of women in a health financing scheme in Karnataka, India”.

Authors: Gayatri Ganesh1, Tanya Seshadri1, Manoj Patil1, Anil MH1, Mahesh K1, Divya Parmar2, Bart Criel3, Philipa Mladovsky2, Narayanan Devadasan1

Author affiliations:
1. Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, India
2. London School of Economics, London, UK
3. Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

6. Praveen Aivalli is presenting poster titled- “Government tablets have less power: People’s perspectives on utilization of public healthcare in rural India”.

7. Pragati Hebbar has an oral presentation from the study titled- “Local partnerships for global challenges: Lessons from local intersectoral work for tobacco control and health promotion”.

8. Mahesh.S.Kadammanavar is presenting a poster titled:” My family is covered but not me……Lesson learnt from the national health insurance scheme (RSBY) in Karnataka”

Authors: Mahesh Kadammanavar, Tanya Seshadri1, Gayatri Ganesh1, , Anil MH2, Lara Webar3, Manoj Patil1,Narayanan Devadasan1,
Author affiliations:
1 Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, India
2 RMNCH+A consultant (unicef supported)
9. Photo Competition: A photo story by Bhargav Shandilya and Mrunalini Gowda on the theme of “Gender and Health systems” honorary mention and it will displayed at the upcoming Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Cape Town, South Africa.