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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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