IIPHG to introduce course in emergency mgmt

The Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), which launched a one-year diploma course in public health management for government servants a year ago, is now planning to introduce a postgraduate programme in emergency management.

IIPHG is set up under the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a public private partnership which aims to strengthen training, research and development in area of public health.

The institute, also plans to have its own campus in near future. Currently, IIPHG is running in a makeshift campus at the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research campus.

However, the government has allotted 50 acre near the Chiloda-Palaj road where the institute's own campus would come up. Unlike medical programmes, the postgraduate courses in public health will be offered to graduates from any discipline.

While the country’s first IIPH was set up in Gujarat, PHFI is looking at setting up more such institutes across the country. PHFI intends to initiate postgraduate programmes in the field of public health. PHFI is still in the process of recruiting faculty for its institutes and intends to increase the current seat capacity of IIPHG from 25 to 50 in the near future.

In Gujarat, IIPHG will help in providing the required workforce in public health, state health minister Jay Narayan Vyas told Business Standard earlier.