Public Health Foundation of India

Public Health Foundation of India is a response to redress the limited institutional capacity in India for strengthening training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health. PHFI is an autonomously governed public private partnership initiative launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2006. The Foundation is managed by a fully empowered, independent, governing board that has representatives from multiple constituencies. The Board includes senior government officials, eminent Indian and international academic and scientific leaders, civil society representatives and corporate leaders.

In the series of Indian Institute of Public Health, the institutes were established in Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Shillong and Delhi which shall be made operational in this year. Besides Centre of Excellence for Chronic Diseases at IIPH Delhi will augment PHFI’s capacity for research in chronic diseases in India.

The next in the series is world-class institute of Public Health which will be set up at Kumarabasta village near Bhubhneshwar, which shall be completed by 2012. A memorandum in this regard is signed by Health and Family welfare Secretary Anu Garg and PHFI president K Srinath Reddy. Please note that IIPH had already signed an MoU to establish eight institutes of Public health in different parts of the country.