NTRUHS Reviews on Placements, Faculty and Facilities

Strengthening health systems is a major priority for improving the overall systems performance across managerial, academic and technological domain. These training are intended for key personnel in health systems to build their capacities in effectively leading on and managing complex public health programs.

The training division at PHFI builds capacity of health systems personnel at various critical levels including both managerial and thematic capacity. Health systems training at PHFI has included training on program management and evaluation, health policy analysis, ICT in public health, data management, decision making and leadership among other areas.

The college has conducted training on improving cancer control, disaster preparedness, neuro development among children, evidence based management of diabetes, tobacco control and cardiovascular diseases. Additionally, the college has also conducted training on sub-themes like disability, hearing impairment, rapid response and adolescent health.

Special training programs are introduced in the course so as to give students a basic knowledge about some of the infectious diseases. Trainees have included personnel from government and non-government backgrounds - including NGOs. They are so good at their work that all the students who took this training got 100% credits in their programme.

The college is helping to build institutional and systems capacity in India for strengthening education, training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health. They have provided world class facilities to all its students so that they can achieve the desired positions in the industry and never lose focus and never face any lack of resources. They have made sure that all the necessary resources are available to all its students.

PHFI has conducted training across stakeholders including dietitians, nutritionists, researchers, medical faculty among others. The role of training in public health nutrition is critical in bridging the gap in evidence related to nutrition and disease, and defining pathways and specific actions to apply epidemiological methods to nutrition in terms of methods of data collection, analytical procedures, and interpretation of findings.

Training aims to build technical capacity of national, state and district level health personnel so that they are better placed to carry out research, analyse data and learn the application of systematic research techniques in improving health programmes. All the students are urged to undergo these training programmes inorder to learn and grow in their field.

Research is a cross-cutting theme at PHFI and spans across other six thematic focus of the training division at PHFI. Training in research includes training in quantitative and qualitative research, operational research, clinical research as well as training on ethics in research methodology.

I was very interested in this course but couldn't apply online due to non-reliable internet connection in my area. So I applied through offline mode and downloaded the form and filled it and sent it to the admission department by courier. I sent application form along with the copies of required certificates attested by Gazetted officer and 5 photos. If any of the item is missing, the application stands cancelled as this was instructed to me by the college.

The academic programmes are a crucial channel of PHFI's mandate, which is to address the worrying shortage of trained and qualified human resources. Our priority is to build a strong public health system across the length and breadth of India. They aim to make education and research activities relevant in content and context to all of India, while attaining standards which are qualitatively comparable with the best in the world.