About Us

Vision

The program aims at creating a network of public and private health institutions institutions which could offer regular state of the art health policy and management courses both at the state and national level and serve as a ready resource base for policymakers and other institutes in the network to draw on for their training programs.
The program includes the delivery of courses, building the capacity of local faculty, creating an electronic resource centre and building distance learning capacity.

Chronology of what happened 2006-2008

2006: Responding to a request from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare and the World Bank Institute undertook a situational analysis of training needs in 2006. The analysis concluded that it would be useful to develop a customized program for India that would provide a capacity building initiative so that a network of Indian training institutions offering courses on health policy and management both at the state and national level could be established. The program draw from global WBI training programs in health, such as the Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing which introduce senior policy makers and state and district level implementers to state of the art knowledge and innovations in the health sector.

2007: In February 2007, a technical workshop with faculty from Indian training institutes was held to expose them to key elements of the flagship course, review them in the Indian context and develop case studies and other materials relevant to India. Subsequently, the materials were tested in a one-week pilot flagship course in April 2007 by a team of international and Indian trainers.

Taking into account feedback from the faculty and participants involved in the April course the planning for a second central course and three state-level courses started in July 2007. A needs assessment jointly undertaken by NIHFW and WBI in October-November 2007 in the three focus states of UP, Orissa and Rajasthan identified priority training needs of different levels of policy makers and implementers and assessed potential partner institutions in these states.

2008: Based on the findings of the needs assessment three courses were delivered in 2008 jointly by NIHFW and WBI with Indian and international faculty: A Indian Flagship course on Health System Policy and Management in January 2008 in Ahmedabad, a state-level course on Public Private Partnership in Health in April 2008 in Agra and a state-level course on Human Resource Management in Health in May 2008 in Puri.