PHRD - Amsa India

Public Health & Research Department

AMSA India

The health of a country’s people determines its prosperity. India’s most pressing problem today is to improve its performance on health metrics. Accessible, cheap, and effective health services must be guaranteed to all sectors of India’s population.

PH&RD was founded in response to a desire to raise public health awareness about issues that affect people’s overall well-being such as Growth and Health, Mental Health, Gender Equality, Communicable Disease and many others.

Following this desire, the flagship program for PH&RD, The Public Health Stewardship Programme was launched in 2019.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM

The Public Health Stewardship Programme is an amalgamation of Public Health Projects under PH&RD, led by Project Heads.

The projects course in line with the sustainable development goals based on UN Guidelines.

Currently there are 11 projects running under PHSP with each of them focusing on specific SDG’s related to their cause. These include:

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Ahaar Abhiyaan

Translates into “a campaign for healthy food”. Works on combating malnutrition in all its forms.

Chalaang

Focusing on children’s issues such improper nutrition and lack of hygiene especially amongst the underprivileged.

Badlaav

Promoting good health and well-being with special reference to combating communicable diseases

Astitva

Creating awareness about the various aspects of female health.

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Hope Stone

Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol

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Muskurahat

Reduce by one third premature mortality from non communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being

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Pact to Protect

End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases.

ROOTS

Improve the quality of life for every being on this planet earth with emphasis on the climate change, life below water and life on land

Saamya

The project at its core believes that every human being deserves equal treatment irrespective of their gender, sex, sexuality, race etc

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Swaasth Ajeevika

Raise awareness about the occupational hazards that occupational workers are or can be exposed to

WASH

The project aims to Increase access to sustainable and safe water, aid in the water provision to underprivileged communities as well as increase awareness about day-to-day sanitation and hygiene.

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