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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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Director's
Report 2008-03 |
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14th
Annual General Body Meeting, 2 December, 2010
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of the faculty and staff of the Institute, I welcome
you all to this fourteenth annual general body meeting. I joined
the Institute on 2nd September, 2009, which was well
past the reporting year. However, I have the privilege to report
before you the good work done by my predecessor and present recent
events that gives us hope for further development of the
Institute. On behalf of the General Body of the Institute, I
extend our heartfelt gratitude to Dr. CK George, for his
leadership of the Institute during its most trying times. I
gratefully acknowledge the support given by members of the Board,
the Executive Council, and the General Body.
I first present about the Institute's faculty and human
resources. Next I will give an overview of activities during the
reporting period. Thereafter, I will briefly touch upon recent
developments during the current year. We will then a review time
trend of the Institute’s financial performance and consider
possible directions for the future. Finally I will seek your
comments and approval of the audited accounts of the Institute. |
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I have structured my report as follows:
- Faculty and Staff.
- Reporting year (2002-2003) events and activities.
- Current year (2003-2004) events and activities till date.
- Taking stock of the Institutes progress so far.
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I. Faculty
and Staff:
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As on date we have a total of 33 persons in various
categories as shown here.
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IHS Personnel Position, 2 Dec 2010. |
| Category of personnel |
Persons |
| Faculty
& Coordinators |
| Full time
Faculty |
2 |
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Project Coordinator(s) |
1 |
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Consultants |
2 |
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Voluntary / Visiting faculty |
2 |
| Research
& Lab Personnel |
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Research Assistants |
1 |
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Microbiologists |
2 |
| Res.
Investigators |
5 |
| Fellow,
Intern & Apprentices |
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Research Fellows |
1 |
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Interns |
5 |
| General
Support Personnel |
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Project Manager |
1 |
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Accountant |
2 |
| Front
Office Staff |
2 |
| Service
Provider Personnel |
| System Administrators |
1 |
| Healthcare software Development
Intern |
1 |
| Other
Service Personnel |
5 |
| All |
33 |
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Annex-1 provides more details about the current
faculty and personnel profile of the Institute. Our faculty and
staff participated in many workshops, seminars and conferences,
details of which are provided in Annex-2. A list of outgoing
faculty and personnel is given in Annexure-3. During the reporting
period, the Institute has contributed towards health systems
development through active involvement of its representatives in
national and state level bodies as given in Annex-4.
All of you are aware that the academic programs have been
suspended as we do not have adequate space. Hence, there was no
scope to receive the visiting faculties during the years.
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Reporting
Period (2008-09) Events and Activities: |
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As you are all aware, the Institute
pursues five broad type of activities towards improvement of
public health. These are; |
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Research and Consultancy |
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Academic Programmes |
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Training Services |
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Public Services, and |
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Publications |
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A. Research and
Consultancy: |
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Three consultancy projects as shown in
Table-2 were completed during the reporting period. A brief
summary of each of these projects is given in Annexure-5. |
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Table 2:
Consultancy Projects Completed in 2008-09
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Sponsor |
Start Year |
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1 |
Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for Health in
Orissa |
DFID, Government of UK |
2007-08 |
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Technical Support to Government of AP for Implementing AP
Health Sector Reform Program |
DFID, Government of UK |
2007-08 |
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Verbal Autopsy and Technical Support for CHAMPION Trial |
Naandi Foundation |
2007-08 |
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We did not complete any research
project during the reporting period. However, one research project
and three consultancy projects as shown in Table-3, were taken up
in the reporting period and continuing in the current year. Of
these, one project "Study on Public Health Courses and
Training Programmes in India" was completed in the current
year and a report was submitted to NHSRC. A brief summary of each
of these projects is given in Annex-6. |
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Table-3:
Continuing Projects Taken Up in Reporting Period
(2008-09)
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Research |
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Doctor Availability in Primary Health Centers |
Planning Dept, AP Govt. |
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Consultancy |
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Cause of Death Coding for CHAMPION Trial |
Naandi Foundation |
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State Level Health Budget and Expenditure
Tracking |
National Health Systems Resource Center (NHSRC) |
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Public Health Courses and Trg. Programs in
India |
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