West Bengal will soon have an Institute of Public Health with economist Amartya Sen and several experts from Britain and the US on its global advisory group, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today.
"An Institute of Public Health is being set up at Kalyani, Nadia. The Institute will develop as a global centre to address key areas of education, research and policy formulations in public health and related subjects," Banerjee wrote on her Facebook wall today.
It has been decided to constitute a Global Advisory Group with eminent persons to make the Institute a world-class centre, she said.
They are Prof Amartya Sen, Prof Abhijit Binayak Banerjee of MIT, Prof Sir Michael Marmot, Director, University College of London Institute of Health Equity, Prof Lincoln Chenn, Chairman, China Medical Board in the USA, Prof. Grant Miller, Director, Stanford Centre for International Development, she said.
Prof K Srinath Reddy, President Public Health Foundation of India and K Sujatha Rao, ex-Union Health Secretary, she added in her post.
