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Mission & Goals: |
Groom Skills,
Gather
Evidence and
Generate Knowledge for
people's health.
To Improve the Efficacy,
Quality & Equity
of Health Systems. |
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| IHS
Profile ...
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Organisation and
Structure
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The
Institute of Health Systems (IHS) is a civil society
institution, registered under the Societies
Registration Act1 . The IHS is registered as a
charitable scientific institution under section 12A of
the Income Tax Act2 . Contributions to IHS are
eligible for exemption under section 80G of the Income
Tax Act3 . The Institute has been granted permanent
registration by the Government of India, Ministry of
Home affairs under the Foreign Contributions
Regulation Act4 . Starting with the first meeting held
in July 1994, annual general body meetings are
conducted ever year, around December - January. IHS
files its audited accounts with the Income Tax
department every year. Annual reports are filed with
the registrar of societies and are accessible to
public through the registrar of documents. In addition
the annual reports, and audited accounts of the
Institute are made available, along with other
publications of the institute, to interested persons
for a small charge.
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Dr. P.
Hrishikesh, Chairman of IHS is a Harvard
Schoolof Public Health alumnus and a pioneering public
health personality of the State.
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Membership of the institute is open
to any person who has consistently evinced interest
and demonstrated commitment towards objectives of the
Institute and to institutions with complementary
objectives. In addition, the Executive Council may
elect as an Honorary Member of the Institute, any
person who has rendered conspicuous service in any of
the areas covered by the objectives of the Institute.
The Executive Council may also invite and appoint any
person or body in any foreign country who has evinced
interest or demonstrated commitment to pursue
objectives similar to that of the Institute, to be an
Honorary Correspondent of the Institute. The Director
may, on application in the prescribed manner, admit as
an Associate Member of the Institute any person
interested in the areas of work of the Institute or in
availing it’s services and facilities for study. An
Associate Member shall not be deemed to be a member of
the General Body but will be entitled to avail the
services and facilities of the institute.
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| IHS
Mission and Goals | |
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IHS
mission is to groom skills, gather evidence and
generate knowledge, for people’s health. The
Institute strives to build local capacity
and the global knowledge base for public health and
socioeconomic development. IHS activities fall into
research, education,
training and various other services. The Institute
conducts health systems research on applied and
operational issues to
improve equity and efficiency of the health care
sector. IHS offers training programmes to improve
managerial skills and health system
research capability in India.
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The
Institute strives to maintain a balance between
various modes of learning and application to provide
an environment for intellectual
development, knowledge based work and at the same time
keep the skill set of its faculty well grounded to
realities of social
services delivery in India and other developing
countries. While seeking to develop itself as a
premier school of public health
in India, the Institute has chosen a different
organisational path to sustain a high level of
creativity and operational efficiency.
IHS is a civil society institution and has so far been
entirely funded out of revenue generated by its
faculty and staff through
sponsored research programmes, tuition fee collections
and other service charges.
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| Administrative
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The
Institute is governed by a system of authorities
consisting of : (a) the General Body, (b) the
Executive Committee, and (c) the Board
of Governors. The General Body of the institute is
constituted by all types of members including charter
members, honorary members,
and institutional members but excluding all types of
associate members. The General body elects members to
the Executive
Council; considers the annual report and audited
accounts of the Institute and make such observations
as deemed fit;
advises the Executive Council on all academic matters;
makes recommendations to the Executive Council
regarding the policy and
qualifications for admission of new members,
priorities for research and training, and improvement
of the functioning of the
institute for achievement of the objectives. The
Director presents a report on the Institute’s
activities to the General Body every
year, along with the audited accounts of the
Institute. These documents are available for purchase
by interested members of
the public across the Front office.
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The
Executive Committee is composed of the President of
the Institute (ex officio), three persons nominated by
the board of governors
either from among themselves or from among reputed
professionals in any of the areas relevant to the
objectives as well as
management of the Institute, representatives of the
Central Govt. and the Govt. of the State in which the
registered office of
the Institute is located, if they have exercised their
option to be charter members, upto four persons
elected by the General Body, in
accordance with it’s own procedure, and the Director
of the Institute who is the member secretary. The
Executive Committee
oversees management of the Institute and appoints the
Director and the Finance Officer.
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Dr. Prasanta
Mahapatra, Founder and President of IHS, is a physician civil
servant, whose visionary zeal and enterprise steers
the IHS. | |
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The Board
of Governors is constituted by the charter members of
the Institute. The Board of Governors elects the
chairman of the
institute; appoints the president and the nominee
members of the executive council of the Institute;
makes ordinances with regard
to maintenance of accounts and administration of the
funds and other properties of the Institute, the
conduct of business by
the Executive Council and the General Body, the duties
of the officers and employees of the Institute, their
qualification, system of
recruitment, salaries allowances and other conditions
of service. The Institute functions under the general
supervision of the Board
of Governors and the board is empowered to review the
actions of the executive council, general body or any
of the office
bearers.
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The
General Body and the Board of Governors meet annually.
Office Bearers of the Institute consist of the
Chairman and the President.
The Chairman presides over the meetings of the Board
of Governors and the General Body. The President
chairs the Executive
Committee. The Ethics Committee examines all research
proposals and activities to assure that ethical
standards of research
are satisfied. New research proposals are discussed in
the Faculty Committee to satisfy about the objectives,
and research methodology.
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| Ethics
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Dr. Prasanta
Mahapatra, President, IHS and D.R. Garg,IAS, Charter Member share a momment with Dr. Lalji
Singh, Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
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Research
projects taken up by the institute adheres to the
high moral and ethical standards in choice of methodology
to test various hypotheses. The ethics committee
reviews the proposals for research to assess among
other considerations whether the research so designed
would yield meaningful results that could not be
obtained by other methods. The ethics committee
also assesses whether
voluntary and informed consent of
the individuals participating in the study is obtained
and whether the study has
been planned in a manner so
that the degree of risk taken and inconvenience
caused does not exceed that
determined by the humanitarian
importance of the problem to be solved by
the experiment and also sees that the study will be
conducted by persons who
possess the requisite competence and qualities to carry
out the research. The ethics committee consists of
about five members, two of the members are
from outside the institute. Director of the institute
is a member and convener of the committee. Life of the
committee is permanent,
with members joining it according to the terms of
their appointment. The committee after examining the
details of a
proposal, may either certify that the project has
obtained the committees’ clearance as such or with
specific conditions, or
advise appropriate modifications to methodology so as
to meet social ethical considerations.
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Faculty | |
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Programmes
and activities of the institute are carried out by a
team of faculty and staff lead by the Director, who is
the chief Academic
and Executive Officer of the Institute. The Institute
is equipped with a core group of multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary full time
faculty. These include people from various background
including Community Health, Nutrition, Health Economics,
Social Sciences, Health Care Management, Environmental
Sciences, Biotechnology, and Computer Applications.
Every Faculty is
involved in research or applied work, assumes teaching
responsibility and is available to health care
organisations for consultation.
The combination of theoretical, practical, and
educational work by each of the faculty fosters am
enriched environment
for creativity, relevance, authenticity and
effectiveness. The Institute is constantly searching
for people interested in
health sector, and with interdisciplinary skills to
contribute towards health systems development. For
many such extraordinary people
a full time association with the Institute may not be
feasible. The Institute seeks out such distinguished
guest faculty, usually
from a wide range of health and related disciplines. The Institute-Guest Faculty connect happens in many
ways such as;
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Dr. Robert J. Kim-Farley, WHO representative
to India, delivering a lecture at the IHS, on 15/11/2000.
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(a)
active and directed search for a person with a given
profile to meet a specific
requirement, (b) serendipitous encounters between the
IHS and potential
guest faculty, and (c) active and directed search by
people for an institution
like that of the IHS. Individual profile of current
faculty is available elsewhere
as a separate chapter / document. The Institute’s
faculty meet from time
to time to review the Institutes research activities,
academic programmes
and share information about their respective projects.
The faculty committee
advises the director about academic matters and
general management of
the Institute.
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| Accreditations
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The
IHS is a member of the National Consortium of Training
Institutions in Community
Health (NCTICH)5 , organised by National Institute
of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW).
The
Institute is recognised by the NTR University of
Health Sciences, for
practical training of MD(SPM) students6
The
IHS is affiliated to Andhra Pradesh State Board of
Technical Education
and Training7 for conducting courses in Health Informatics.
The
IHS is an institutional partner of the Alliance for
Health Policy and
Systems Research (AHPSR), World Health Organization
(WHO), Geneva8 .
The
IHS is a member of the HL7 organisation9 , which is an
international professional body for development and
use of health
informatics standards.
The
Institute is a recognized by the Council for
Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology
(CAPART), Ministry of
Rural Development, Government of India for campus
recruitment under the Young Professional (YP) Scheme
and placement of
Institute’s students with reputed NGO’s.
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