Training

Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru will be launching an elearning initiative titled ePHM (elearning course for Public Health Managers). The ePHM course is the first of its kind in India. The course offers 12 modules on public health management for health managers.

After the launch of the National Rural Health Mission, young management and other non-medical professionals were posted as programme managers at taluka/block, district and state levels. There are about 584 District Program Managers (DPMs) and 3095 Block Program Managers (BPMs) in India. They play an important role in monitoring the functioning of government health facilities. Lack of technical knowledge in health, insufficient and unclear prescribed supervisory checklists for field visits, limits them to perform effectively and efficiently in their current roles. The ePHM course is mainly designed to cater to the learning needs of such professionals, consequently the priority for ePHM will be the training of BPMs above all else.

Please note: The ePHM 2013 application is closed. Express your interest for the next batch using the link below

The institute’s primary goal to launch a public health course is to develop public health capacities within the health systems.

The unique features of the course are

• Course will train a heterogeneous team of government health care providers, middle level and senior professionals from developmental and social science sector, from research institutes and non-governmental organisation
• Course will emphasize on imbibing the general principles of public health and will advocate the health systems approach
• Course will provide a platform for cross disciplinary and peer learning
• Course is based on the principles of reflective practice and actor-orientation
• Course advocates solidarity, participation, respect for autonomy and commitment to contribute to health and well-being as basic public health values

IPH runs a sandwich PhD programme in public health with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The programme is a part of a long term partnership with ITM and is funded under the Belgian Government’s DGDC grant. PhD candidates chosen under the programme are expected to spend about 8 months in their chosen field, while the remaining four months in the year is spent at ITM, Antwerp.

The next call for PhD will be in 2014. Applications will be invited in the middle of 2013 on the website. At present, there is no call for applications for PhD

A study conducted by IPH in 2007 revealed that an important reason for poor health outcomes in India was the lack of management skills at the district level. Based on this study, IPH decided to train district level officers on public health management. To strengthen the technical inputs, IPH formed a consortium of five organisations, called Swasthya Karnataka (SK).

SK partnered with the Karnataka Health Systems Development and Reforms Project (KHSDRP) to build the capacity of the Tumkur District Health Officers.

Curriculum was developed keeping adult learning principles in mind using experiential learning techniques. Content focused on building knowledge and skills through practical application of the content to issues in the participant’s daily work routine.

The internship programme lays emphasis on observing, working and understanding the ground realities through exposure to research, training and advocacy in public health in rural and urban areas.The intern will benefit from practical learning as well as sharing of experience and expertise from senior professionals and peers from different projects at the institute.

Topics available for inernship

Topics 

1. Create a database of all the data with regard  to Karnataka / India. This can be added to the Resource webpage as a resource for researchers and others.
2. Analyze the existing HR study data and come up with a working paper
3. Analysis of maternal death audit reports, Profile of private tertiary health care facilities in Karnataka
4. Improving & supporting vital statistics information system of government
5. Using RTI as a tool for research and policy

Primary data collection for studies on:

1. A study of the reasons why there are stock-outs in the pharmacies in PHCs in Tumkur
2. Referral patterns among pregnant women
3. Status of Universal health coverage

The Institute strongly believes in capacity building through exposure to various ideas. As a result we have routine seminars conducted by both staff and external experts on a range of topics. These range from research to human resources to information technology. The idea behind these is to expose people to various points of view and ideas allowing them to make previously unseen connections and improve their productivity and understanding in whatever field they may be a part of.

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