Health Services
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.
PRIORITIES
Strengthening primary health care

Concurrent Monitoring of Midwifery Training Program in Odisha- CMMT

District Gap Assessment-Telangana (DGAT)

Health and Wellness Centre- Innovation Learning Centre

Strengthening Primary Care for NCD's (Kolar District)

Evaluation Of Midwife Training In Telangana (EMTT)

Strengthening NCD care in Tumkur

Urban Health Action Research Project

An Implementation Research in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka (INCARE)
Private sector engagement

Optimising the involvement of Private Practitioners
in Tuberculosis Care

Private Health Sector Involvement in National TB Control Programme: An intervention research, Tumukur District
Access to care

The Access to Medicines Study

Qualitative Research Study on Barriers to Point Of Care Testing in India
Disease control

SPEAK India - Setting the Post-Elimination Agenda for Kala-Azar in India
Updates
Anusthana’s protocol paper published in BMJ
Dr. Pragati Hebbar together with Vivek Dsouza, Upendra Bhojani, Onno CP van Schayck, Dr. Giridhara Babu, and Gera Nagelhout co-authored a protocol paper titled “Implementation research for taking tobacco control policies to scale in India: a realist evaluation study...
Evaluation of a school-based tobacco/supari cessation program
Dr. Upendra Bhojani, co-authored a paper in Population Medicine journal, along with Dr. Pragati Hebbar and Amiti Varma from the Chronic Conditions and Public Policies cluster at IPH-Bengaluru. The paper evaluated a school-based tobacco/supari cessation intervention...
Workshop on Preventing TII (Chhattisgarh & Manipur)
In two separate workshops held in December last year, Dr. Upendra Bhojani (Director, IPH-Bengaluru) was invited to serve as a resource person (virtual) on Tobacco Industry Interference (TII). The workshops were held in Chhattisgarh (16th December, 2020) and Manipur...
Paper on Parliamentary Questions Related to Tobacco in India
Dr. Upendra Bhojani, co-authored a paper in the BMJ Global Health, along with Amiti Varma & Latha Chilgod of the Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru. This is the first peer-reviewed paper from the DEEP project titled “Diverse and competing interests around...
India Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2020
Led by Dr. Upendra Bhojani and Adhip Amin from IPH, the India Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2020 report has been produced through a collaborative work of several institutions and individuals active in tobacco control research and practice in India. The report...
Ketki Shah – Doctoral Fellowship (DBT/WT India Alliance)
Ketki Shah received a doctoral fellowship under the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance project led by Dr. Upendra Bhojani. She has registered her PhD in December 2020 at The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology (TDU). At TDU, her PhD is...