Health Services Research

Research within this cluster seeks

To understand challenges in health care organization and delivery of services that are equitable using a systems lens.
To build an actionable base of innovations and interventions to strengthen an integrated delivery of health care services that is person-centered at decentralized levels of health care.

We draw inspiration from the Primary Health Care concept – “Primary health care is essential health care based on practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable methods and technology made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford to maintain at every stage of their development in the spirit of self-reliance and self-determination” (Alma Ata declaration 1978) and conduct research for realisation of the same.

We strive to better understand the challenges in implementation and service delivery, identifying and create solutions based on that understanding, and study the implementation of measurable actions to improve health services.

Some of the themes we have worked on and continue to engage with are

Primary Health Care
Quality of care
Access to care
Health care workforce
Disease control
Private sector engagement

1. Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM)
2. School CAPHRI, Care, and Public Health Research Institute
Maastricht University
3. Kolar District Health Office
4. Tumkur District Health Office
5. WHO Alliance for Health Systems and Policy Research