Situational Analysis of Public Health Research Capacity in India
Research in public health is critical to the development of new vaccines and medicines as well as improved healthcare systems. In 2010, ICICI Child Health initiated a research practice to strengthen public health research in India through a situational analysis to understand the existing capacities, gaps, resources, stakeholders and experiences in this context
Read More Building Public Health Capacity
To develop institutional and individual public health capacity, IFIG—CCHN supported the setting up of the Public Health Resource Society (PHRS), PHRS worked to empower practitioners at the district and sub-district levels and to build resource groups and active practitioner networks for knowledge and experience sharing, interactive activities, projects and mutual support.
Read More Ranchi Low Birth Weight Project
The “Ranchi Low Birth Weight Project” aimed to understand the combined impact of community health worker and system-strengthening strategies on reducing the proportion of low birth weight. The project introduced the model of Sahiyyas (community health workers) and village health committees, which were scaled up across the state of Jharkhand.
Read More Nutrition Security Innovations Programme
Chhattisgarh Government scales up ICICI Foundation’s Nutrition Security Innovations Programme to 70 blocks across the state The success of the Foundation’s Nutrition Security Innovations (NSI) programme in 23 blocks of Chhattisgarh has prompted the state to replicate specifics of the programme and other nutrition and communication strategies. Nutritional status of women and children in Chhattisgarh […]
Read More Healthy Lokshakti
The three-year programme is being piloted in two tribal blocks of Maharashtra – Trimbak and Peth in Nasik district. It is implemented by Vachan, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), with support from Bhavishya Alliance. The intervention included Create and maintain a well-coordinated network linking the communities, grassroots health workers, transport facilities and healthcare institutions in tribal […]
Read More Project SARAS
The first of the initiatives under technical research in nutrition is the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project/ Project SARAS, a research partnership between the Medical Research Council, University of Southampton, UK, SNEHA – India (Society for the Natal Effects of Health in Adults), and the Centre for the Study of Social Change, Mumbai. Based in urban […]
Read More Working with Self Help Groups: Kalanjiam Foundation Project
Based on the opportunities presented by women’s self help groups of MFIs, and the positive evidences of working with women’s groups for health and nutrition, this action-research project was centred around federated women’s micro credit self help groups as sites for community intervention in health and nutrition, with a particular focus on concerns of young […]
Read More Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project
ICICI Foundation supports the Mumbai Maternal Nutrition Project, a randomised controlled trial on maternal and child health. The study tests the impact of enhancing micronutrient quality in women’s diets from before conception to delivery by examining women’s health, foetal growth and their children’s development. In 2010-2011, the project succeeded in achieving its target of enrolling […]
Read More City Initiative for Newborn Health
The City Initiative for Newborn Health worked to improve the health and survival of mothers and newborns among slum communities in Mumbai. The project strengthened community awareness and action on maternal and newborn health as well as improved the care available at municipal primary health care facilities. Slum populations in India rank among the poorest, […]
Read More District Action Health Plans
Health planning at the district level Shahkhund Primary Health Centre, a cluster of buildings in the Shahkhund block of Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, provides a strong case for at least two things. First, while Bihar’s rural public health system is not yet functioning optimally, there have been significant improvements in just a few years. And second, […]
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