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Rajeev Sadanandan, Highlights
Chief Executive O cer
This year saw work at Health Systems Transformation Platform progress to more mature levels,
building on the foundation laid in previous years. The first cohort of the Indian Health Policy and 01 02
Systems Research Fellowships completed their course and advanced to the research work. The
second cohort have moved to the online pedagogic modules. Considering the interest in the
HPSR community we have launched the Quarterly HPSR Webinars which will be delivered by an Launched the India Health Policy & Systems Launched the Health Policy and Systems
eminent expert on HPSR. HSTP has pioneered the e orts at defining and assessing Research Fellowships Program Cohort 2022 to Research Webinar Series to bring together
competencies for primary care in India. The value of our work was recognised when I was invited enhance capabilities of 20 Indian public health HPSR experts to engage with, policymakers,
as a keynote speaker at the launch of the Global Competencies and Outcomes Framework for professionals every year on complexities of practioners and upcoming researchers to
Universal Health Coverage by the World Health Organisation, Geneva. We have finalised the health systems & policy making, related increase the salience of HPSR in discourse on
competencies for pharmacists and medical laboratory technicians in consultation with national research methods and tools to translate health systems. The first session was on Systems
experts and will validate them in the field in the coming year. We will also see the finalisation of evidence to policy and implementation. Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening.
the competencies for nursing professionals, who function either as Community Health O cers
or sta nurses in PHCs. We have also commenced work on enhancing the leadership
competencies of district level managers in the health sector.
Regulation is an often-neglected area in health systems research. We completed a landscape 03 04
document on central health acts and rules in India. The active participation and the interest
shown in the dissemination workshop of the landscape document and the subsequent webinars Expert consultations on developing competency Release of landscape report on regulations
we did on the topic, showed that the research community attaches high importance to our work
in this area. Flowing from this work we identified home based care as an emerging area that frameworks for pharmacists and medical related to health care delivery in India. The
required more work and are currently working on developing standard definitions for the field. laboratory technologists in primary healthcare document was shared widely and acts as a
settings. resource to strengthen regulations, in
Our engagement with states has continued to deepen. Our assessment of the urban health collaboration with state/central governments
system in Mysuru and determinants of urban health in Bhopal, promises to lead to a better and other stakeholders.
understanding of the health situation in cities and will become the foundation for developing an
appropriate PHC strategy for Urban areas and improving environmental and social determinants
of urban health. In Odisha, in addition to our support to the state government on improving
access to essential drugs and improving clinical competencies in PHCs, we are also engaged in
developing a physician leadership programme, digitisation of healthcare and improving nursing
education. We will convert the learning from these states into toolkits which will help other 05 06
states replicate these initiatives.
Conducted a study on home healthcare to Conducted a primary household & health facility
Post the COVID 19 pandemic, India is set to see the scale up of a substantive number of reforms understand how home healthcare is organised survey as part of the diagnostic assessment of
in the health sector. These include strengthening of infrastructure, creating electronic health
records for the entire population and augmenting workforce and laboratory support to improve and delivered in India, with respect to the Odisha health system to understand
surveillance. This has led to an increase in interest in health systems. HSTP hopes to play a services, providers, users, and interaction performance in terms of health status, financial
significant role in building capacity to generate evidence to support policies and programmes in between them. risk protection, access to services, quality, and
the areas as well as work with policy makers on using the available evidence. e ciency of delivering care.
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