Health and Family Welfare
- Overview
- The vision of the Health and Family Welfare Division is to provide policy inputs aligned to the National Health Policy 2017 and make India’s health sector robust, economically affordable, and accessible. The Division provides advice and policy guidance to key stakeholders involved in public health development and management. It engages with the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and AYUSH, the Department of Pharmaceuticals, the National Health Authority, State and local governments. The Division also collaborates with reputed international and national academic institutions, research organisations, development partners and eminent experts to advance the discussion towards making long-term impacts on policy approaches for the public health sector.
- Core Functions
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- To evaluate policies and schemes pertaining to:
i) Health and family welfare, with a special focus on the National Health Mission (NHM).
ii) AYUSH
iii) Health research
iv) Pharmaceuticals - To design strategic and long-term policy and programme frameworks and initiatives for improving health access and health outcomes in the sector.
- To engage with relevant Ministries and Departments, examine current policies, strategies and programmes, both at the Central and state levels, and suggest appropriate modifications or mid-course corrections.
- Analyzing and providing comments on various health-sector schemes, programmes, and projects through the appraisal of preliminary project reports; and for proposals under the EFC and SFC. Reviewing and commenting on Cabinet Notes.
- Developing strategy papers on various thematic areas and factors that affect urban health, investment and growth opportunities in health, health finance, and insurance, etc.
- Conducting research and analysis with reputed organisations, academic institutions and development partners and facilitate discussions with eminent experts in the domain of public health management, urban health management, health finance and insurance, medical device manufacturing, etc.
- To evaluate policies and schemes pertaining to:
- Partners
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- WHO India
- World Bank
- University of Manitoba
- Access Health International
- Asian Development Bank
- Line Ministries
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- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Department of Health and Family Welfare
- Department of Health Research
- Ministry of AYUSH
- Department of Pharmaceuticals
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- Reports
- Projects
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- State Health Index
- District Hospital Index
- Proposing a revised National Organ Transplant Program (NOTP)
- Integrative Health Policy
- Developing a world-class integrated Emergency and Trauma Care System
- Catalyzing and Reforming Care for Seniors in India
- Expansion of MD doctors through Family Medicine training program
- Orphan drugs and therapies for rare diseases
- National Ayush Research Consortium (NARC) to facilitate Ayush research among the research institutions of the country
- Streamlining mental health and suicide prevention in India
- PPP in Health Care
- Policy and strategy for Health Insurance coverage of India’s Missing Middle
- Who’s Who
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Name Designation Email ID Sh. Rajib Kumar Sen Programme Director rajib[dot]sen[at]nic[dot]in Dr. Sumana Arora Senior Consultant sumanaa[dot]arora[at]niti[dot]gov[dot]in Dr. Sumita Ghosh Officer on Special Duty sumita[dot]ghosh[at]nic[dot]in Sh. Shoyabahmed Kalal Deputy Secretary s[dot]kalal[at]nic[dot]in Dr. Sonali Rawal Consultant Grade II sonalir[at]niti[dot]gov[dot]in Sh. Varun Singh Consultant Grade II varun[dot]singh87[at]niti[dot]gov[dot]in Sh. Shobhit Kumar Research Officer shobhit[dot]kumar[at]gov[dot]in Sh. Surendra Kumar Patnaik Section Officer patnaik[dot]s[at]nic[dot]in Shrestha Hazra Consultant Grade-I hazra[dot]shrestha[at]niti[dot]gov[dot]in Ms. Neha Sharma Young Professional nehasharma[dot]03[at]nic[dot]in Sh. Manish Narayan Young Professional manish.narayanan[at]niti[dot]gov[dot]in