Advocacy
Public Enquiry Litigation
Public health issues are often characterized by contested interests of different stakeholders and advocacy on these issues often meet strong resistance from certain quarters. In such scenario, use of legal tools like Right to Information Act or Public Interest Litigation becomes necessary to protect health of the people. Click the relevant links below to fin more details on IPH’s work in these domains.
Mobilizing Specific Social Groups
Mobilizing community or social groups is one of the key strategy in public health advocacy. IPH alone or in collaboration with various networks/coalition organizes campaigns/activities to mobilize specific social groups on specific public health issues. Such campaigns, apart from raising public awareness, bring in public voice on the concerned public health issues.
Networking & coalition building
Policy Briefs
Anti-tobacco advocacy
Mass media
Mass media is a proven tool to reach out to larger public. IPH commonly uses print and broadcasting media. At IPH, faculty members network with journalists, send out press notes/releases, hold press conferences and occasionally write in print and electronic media. Please click on relevant icons to read/watch stories by IPH or citing IPH. Learn more…
Tobacco Control programs in poll Manifestos
Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru and the Voice of Tobacco Victims demanded political parties to include tobacco control as an agenda in their poll manifestos. Parties were also sensitized on need to ban chewing tobacco products and that they shall not receive funding from tobacco industry.
read moreTobacco control now also in Mangalore
A training session was conducted for police officials of the Western Range of Karnataka which includes 4 districts on the 14th March 2013. The officers underwent training for implementation of smoking ban in public places and other guidelines regarding tobacco control. The workshop was conducted in Police Guest House, Mangalore. Tobacco control was taken up as an important issue since one tobacco related death happening every eight second in the country! Karnataka presently has around Two Crore consumers, one third of who may die a premature...
read moreTobacco control lessons for police
Tobacco is one of the world’s leading causes of death and disability. Karnataka presently has around 2 crore consumers, one third of who may die a premature death. Taking cognizance of this matter the state government has taken serious steps to implement cigarette and other tobacco products act (COTPA). Police have taken a novel and crucial role as protectors of health in reducing tobacco consumption with this step. Police personnel belonging 6 districts attended this workshop conducted at Police training college Nagenahalli Gulbarga. They...
read moreFaith United For Tobacco control
In the recent times, there has been an increase in pre-mature deaths due to preventable cancer, heart and lung diseases relating to tobacco consumption at a young age. Religious leaders have long played a critical role in addressing the nation’s social challenges. The faith community can be a powerful force in protecting our children and reducing the terrible toll of tobacco related illness and death. On the eve of Valentine’s day religious leaders of various faiths gathered to raise their voice unanimously against tobacco and to...
read moreRSBY Press release
IPH prepared a press release based on their findings from the WHO supported study on RSBY in Gujarat, India and shared it with the print media. This was widely covered in both print and online newspapers, insurance portals and discussion groups. To read more stories, visit the links provided below: The Hindu: Indemnity in Peril by Aarti Dhar New York Daily News: India’s poor get raw deal from insurance firms: Study Aaj Ki Khabar: India’s poor get raw deal from insurance firms: Study To download Press release Click...
read moreAnti-Tobacco Advocacy
What’s worse than 50% of India’s population consuming tobacco? Twenty odd companies coming together to increase these numbers. That’s what. Come October, and Bangalore will play host to an international tobacco trade event. The four-day event – the Global Tobacco Networking Forum, 2010 (GTNF) – is scheduled from the 4th to the 8th of the October. In attendance will be the top tobacco producing and manufacturing companies worldwide who will get together to discuss and plan ways to improve and enhance the tobacco industry. ...
read moreMass media
Mass media is a proven tool to reach out to larger public. IPH commonly uses print and broadcasting media. At IPH, faculty members network with journalists, send out press notes/releases, hold press conferences and occasionally write in print and electronic media. Please click on relevant icons to read/watch stories by IPH or citing...
read morePolicy briefs
IPH through policy briefs aims to inform policy making by providing relevant evidence for healthy public policies. This section is still under construction. For complete details on policy briefs by IPH, please contact us at 91-80-26421929 OR write to us at mail@iphindia.org Pictorial health warnings on tobacco product packs: In collaboration with the HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Among Youth), New Delhi IPH produced this policy brief in a local language (Kannada) and disseminated to all the state policy makers (Members of...
read moreNetworking & coalition building
IPH networks with relevant stakeholders in health and forms/associates with strategic coalitions on specific health issues/domains. Activities through these partnerships ranges from information sharing to collaborative advocacy. IPH has been associated with following major networks on public health issues. Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control The Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (AFTC) is a coalition of organizations and individuals working in the areas of advocacy, awareness and research related to tobacco control in India....
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