IPH, in collaboration with ITM, Antwerp (ITM) held the National Conference on Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy on December 10th and 11th at Hotel Atria in Bangalore.
Director of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Sumedha Desai inaugurated EPHP and Prof. Dileep Mavalankar gave the inaugural address. Dr. Devadasan, Director of IPH welcomed the delegates. A photo of from the inauguration of EPHP on December 10th, 2010
The two day conference saw 7 keynote addresses, 20 oral presentations and 23 poster presentations all of which were of high quality and covered four key themes of health systems – health services delivery, human resources for health, health financing and governance/stewardship. The aim of EPHP was to try and bring policy makers and researchers on a common platform to help in translating research findings into policy.
EPHP website and continuing advocacy
IPH and EPHP will continue to help with dissemination and advocacy efforts of the studies presented at the conference. All the presentations, posters and a synthesis of the discussion will be available on our website. Our website http://www.ephp.in will continue to remain as a resource for downloads of presentations, videos of the proceedings and contact details of all the presenters.
Proceedings and videos
A session-wise synthesis of the conference will be prepared and soon made available on the website for download. In addition, all videos of the conference and the discussions will be made available at the website.
Invitation to blog
If you would like to share your experience in course of your research or challenges in translating your research into policy, we invite you to contribute to the IPH blog. See http://www.iphindia.org/wp/archives/category/blog
We invite you to write for our blog. Send blog posts to ephp@iphindia.org and we will publish it if it fits this theme.
