IPH takes part in “Freedom from tobacco-Bengaluru unites” on World No Tobacco Day

by | May 27, 2011 | Advocacy, Latest Updates, Media advocacy

As part of the Global Awareness Campaign on the eve of the World No Tobacco Day, we are involved in launching an initiative to unite the doctors in Bengaluru on creating anti tobacco awareness.

This initiative will bring together the doctors from Bengaluru under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sceinces, Indian Medical Association, Indian Dental Association, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and various other national & international organizations working on tobacco control.

Event titled : Freedom from Tobacco – Bengaluru unites

Venue : Freedom Park

Date & time : May 31st 2011 from 4-8pm

This awareness campaign would include:

–          Medical & Dental colleges participating in cultural event

–          Doctors from Bengaluru uniting under a single banner for tobacco control

–          A forum for the public & NGO’s to interact with doctors

–          Guidance for tobacco consumers on quitting tobacco habits

 

For further details please visit

Tobacco Free Bangalore
IPH & BUKO Pharma Kampagne collaborates on study of German pharmaceuticals

IPH & BUKO Pharma Kampagne collaborates on study of German pharmaceuticals

by | May 23, 2011 | Latest Updates

iph BUKO Pharma-Kampagne collaborates on study of German pharmaceuticals

2010 – the year was filled with new lessons in  an area that impacts public health enormously, the pharma industry. At the request of Dr. Christiane Fischer of BUKO-Pharma, my colleague Amruta and myself set out collecting information on the products of three German pharmaceutical companies –Bayer, Baxter and Boehringer.

It was an interesting journey, revealing a number of lessons as we uncovered information in a systematic fashion. The most striking fact initially was how difficult it is to get information on drugs in our country. While the MIMS and CIMS are tabletop advisors to the busy practicing clinician, there is no single compendium of all drugs (generic and non-generic) sold in the country.

It was also clear that medicines are already expensive for the common man, since very few insurances pay for outpatient treatment. It is imperative that practical legal action needs to be implemented in the area of drug control, manufacturing and pricing at national and state levels.

 

View the publication here

IPH & BUKO Pharma Kampagne collaborates on study of German pharmaceuticals

External evaluation team at IPH

by | May 17, 2011 | Latest Updates

An international team of public health experts evaluated the district health management capacity-building initiative of IPH in Tumkur. The team consisted of a mix of public health practitioners, researchers and pedagogists and met with participants of the tumkur programme as well as senior officials from health department of Government of Karnataka and the Karnataka Health Systems Development and Reforms Project (KHSDRP). The intervention in Tumkur consisted of 16 modules of contact sessions (classroom training) for District Health Officer, various programme officers, District Programme manager & Block Programme Manager under NRHM and PHC Medical Officers as well as hand-holding at their workplaces.

The team consisted of (in alphabetical order):

They mainly focused on coherence of the course, i.e. how the course was designed, course effectiveness and efficiency in the management of the course. The findings and suggestions of this external evaluation will help improve our understanding of how to organise programmes for capacity-building of district health managers and to effectively scale up the same course across the state/country.