Asian Institute of Public Health (AIPH) Bhubaneswar starts PG Diploma in Public Health Informatics; Signs MOU with Ravenshaw University to offer MPH
March 27th, 2010
Update2: Excerpts from Expressbuzz.
An MoU was signed between Ravenshaw University Vice- Chancellor Devdas Chotray and AIPH founder secretary Dr Pinaki Panigrahi for the launch of the Masters in Public Health (MPH) programme. Besides imparting comprehensive skills in public health, the course would turn students into experts on occupational and environmental health, public health informatics and clinical and behavioural sciences. With an extensive hands-on experience, they will pass out as professionals ready to shoulder the challenges of the rise of chronic, infectious, occupational and environmental health problems that are vital contributors to high infant and maternal mortality in the State.
The first of its kind programme in Orissa is accreditated by the Council of Education on Public Health (CEPH) under the USA Government. The students would also gain credit points that would facilitate pursuance of higher studies in the US if they so willed.
But, foremost, the programme would churn out the much needed manpower in the State. There are at least 10,000 jobs for public health professionals in the district and block level under the National Rural health Mission. This apart, public health professionals are much sought after by private health sector enterprises, national and international agencies.
Update: Dharitri’s take on this.
The Asian Institute of Public Health in Bhubaneswar has announced a PG Diploma program in Public Health Informatics. This course will start in September 2010. Some details on the course obtained from their page http://www.aiph.ac.in/academics.html is as follows:
Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health Informatics (24 Credits, 12 months course begins 1st September, 2010)
The objective of this course is to help individuals gain knowledge and skills in informatics concepts and applications and advance the use of informatics in risk assessment, disease monitoring and disease surveillance. The course provides an opportunity for the students to understand the information system architecture in public health, privacy, confidentiality and security issues related to health information systems. Graduate students from all disciplines are eligible for this course that will be offered online three times a year. The course consists of the following modules:
· Introduction to Public Health Informatics (IPHI) – Basics of public health informatics, core competencies of public health professionals, and systematic review of public health information systems.
· Foundation of Health Information Systems (FHIS) – This course is designed to help individuals gain knowledge and skills in public health standards, databases, privacy, confidentiality and security issues relevant to public health information systems.
· Applications of Public Health Informatics (APHI) – overview of clinical decision support systems, Geographic Information Systems, public health surveillance systems.
· Computer mediated Health Education and Health Promotion (CMHEHP) – Web based approaches to health education and health promotion, role of health literacy and varied learning needs of public health consumers and different stakeholders.
· A 12 credit informatics research project will be required to get the Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health Informatics.
The institute seems to have a strong faculty. See http://www.aiph.ac.in/Indian.html.
Surendra K. Mishra, MSc, PGDA, DCS
Health systems, behavioural sciences research and communication, reproductive health
Ashish Joshi, MD, MPH
Public health informatics, health outcomes research, design of multi-component interventions
Niharika Khanna, MD, DCH
HPV epidemiology, cervical cancer, cancer vaccinesPrasanna Nair, MD, MPH
Maternal and child health, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS
P N Padmanabhan, PhD, FAAASc
Nutrition, non-invasive methods for monitoring gastrointestinal health, cancer prevention
Seba Mohapatra, MD
Maternal health, health systems
Pinaki Panigrahi, MD, PhD
Epidemiology, field surveillance, human research protection, clinical trialsP. K. Senapati, MD
Health systems, health care delivery and administration
S. Ramanathan, MPhil
Health economics and finance, reproductive health, gender and equity
Preethy Nayar, MBBS, MPhil, PhD
Health services research & administration, program and policy evaluation
Shireen Rajaram, PhD
Social and behavioral sciences, access to health care, health care disparity
Pritish Nanda, PGDHM, MPH
Health communication, hospital management, social mobilization, program managementE. Venkata Rao, MD
Epidemiology, financial management
Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH.
Health communication, community-based participatory research
Ayman El-Mohandes, MD, MPH
International health, program evaluationJ. Glenn Morris Jr, MD, MPH&TM
Infectious diseases, Cholera, emerging and re-emerging diseases
Ira H. Gewolb, MD
Newborn health, biostatisticsJudith A. Johnson, PhD
Infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, clinical microbiologyMagda G. Peck, ScD
Leadership development and practice, childhood well being evaluation
Chandran Achutan, PhD
Occupational and environmental health
Hala Azzam, PhD, MPH
Workforce development and training, field assessments, HIV/AIDS
Hrishikesh Chakraborty, DrPH
Biostatistics, epidemiology, cluster randomized trials
James Sherry, MD,PhD
Health policy, international healthJaime Gofin, MD, PhD
Program evaluation, community-oriented primary careLi-Wu Chen, MHSA, PhD
Health economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, health care utilization by underserved population
KM Monirul Islam, MBBS, PhD
Epidemiology, international health, development of surveillance system and evaluation
Ge Lin, PhD
GIS and spatial statistics, statistic methods for defining and quantifying their spatial signals
This instiute will add to the public health offerings in India which include various IIPH offerings such as:
- IIPH Delhi: PG Diploma in (a) Clinical Research (b) Public Health Management and (c) Health Economics, Health Care Financing and Health Policy
- IIPH Hyderabad: PG Diploma in (a) Biostatistics and Data Management
- IIPH Gandhinagar: PG Diploma in (a) Public Health Management
The IIPH in Bhubaneswar (different from the AIPH) is also scheduled to start in July 2010. The AIPH and IIPH in Bhubaneswar will make Bhubaneswar a strong public health education destination. I hope both will spread their wings across Odisha so that some of the current public health issues of interior Odisha are adequately addressed. I am told AIPH is already doing that and has research projects involving interior and tribal Odisha.
Pioneer reports today that AIPH has signed an MOU with Ravenshaw University. This is a great partnership and beneficial to both.
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1. Chitta Baral | April 2nd, 2010 at 4:59 am
The press release from http://www.aiph.ac.in/press.html is as follows:
Ravenshaw University joins hands with the Asian Institute of Public Health to bring Master in Public Health (MPH) Degree Program to Orissa
The Asian Institute of Public Health has entered into a partnership with Ravenshaw, the premier University of Orissa, to offer the Master in Public Health (MPH) degree course starting July 1, 2010. Devdas Chhotray, Vice chancellor of Ravenshaw University, and Pinaki Panigrahi, on behalf of AIPH and the U.S.-based North-South consortium, exchanged the signed MoUs in presence of honorable minister of higher education Mr. Devi Prasad Mishra and honorable minister of health and family welfare, Mr. Prasanna Acharya at the state secretariat on March 26, 2010.
This MPH curriculum will have many unique strengths not available in any MPH program in India. Apart from offering comprehensive courses in public health, this two year program will provide skill sets in public health informatics and other key areas such as occupational and environmental health and chronic disease surveillance and management. With an extensive hands-on experience, the graduates from this program will be ready to shoulder the challenges and address the unmet public health needs of the region and the country.
Enrolled students will take core courses accredited by the U.S. accreditation body called CePH (Council on Education for Public Health). Successful completion of these core courses (18 credits) will qualify them to receive a U.S. accredited public health certificate. Upon completion of another 27 credits or course work and 15 credits of research, students will get the UGC accredited MPH degree.
Taught by Indian and U.S.-based faculty experts, the Ravenshaw-AIPH MPH graduates will acquire world class skills. If they choose to go for higher studies to the U.S., they can utilize their 18 credits of course work and save substantial amount of time and money in coming years. Several full and partial scholarships and work study programs will also be available to deserving students.
The Vice Chancellor, Ravenshaw University, has setup a management committee to steer this program with eminent experts such as the former director of health services – Dr. Seba Mohapatra, Baroda Kanta Mishra, Director, IMMT, professors of community medicine department of government medical colleges, secretary of health and family welfare, former public service commission chairman Mr. Vivek Pattanayak, Drs. Pinaki Panigrahi, and S K Mishra. This committee is being chaired by the former vice chancellor of BPUT, Prof. Omkar Nath Mohanty.
For more information, or to enroll in the MPH program, please contact mph@aiph.ac.in
2. chiran kumar samal | April 18th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
join diploma
3. Banita Mohanty | April 30th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
I am really happy when I came to know that in orissa in my state MPH course is going to be start.I am really thankfull to those people who had their great efforts to start this in orissa.As I am working in a public healh research center I know what is the value of this course and what will the change it going to made in orissa.Ib will really thankfull to God if I will also get one chance to do MPH and to work for my state.
4. pradip kumar Bhoi | June 3rd, 2010 at 10:52 am
I am working as programme manager in SDH Padampur, Dist- Bargarh, I want to do the diploma in PH course, how can i benefited after the course, please guide me.
5. shishir kumar dash | October 5th, 2011 at 11:43 am
for better future