Dr.Devdasan and Dr.Tanya participated in the Health Inc. kick-off meeting at London between 27th and 29th June 2011.

All six partners of the consortium attended this meeting which was held at the London School of Economics.The key issues discussed included the conceptual overview of social exclusion and the overall description of work of Health Inc. focusing on the first year activities.There were also presentations and discussions on the health financing mechanisms and the social exclusion context in Ghana, Senegal, Maharashtra (India) and Karnataka (India) with emphasis on implementation of research in the respective sites. This meeting also provided an opportunity to all partners to interact with each other, and come to a common understanding about not only the concepts involved but also the project itself.