Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS)

• Agenda for CMHS
• CMHS - Current Activities
• CMHS - Faculties
• CMHS - Project Staff
• CMHS - Office Staff

  Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS)
  IIMA’s involvement in the health sector started with the establishment of the Public Systems Group. In the initial period, our research focused on the management of primary healthcare services and family planning. We expanded our research activities to include the management of secondary healthcare services in the 80s and to tertiary healthcare services in the 90s. Today our research interests also span related areas such as health insurance, healthcare informatics, and healthcare logistics management. IIMA’s contributions to the health sector in the last 10 years include 30 completed projects, 25 articles in refereed journals/publications, 24 publications in conference proceedings, 20 working papers/monographs, 12 registered cases, and over 20 workshops/training programmes. At present, we have ongoing collaborative research projects on Maternal Health with Columbia University, USA, and on Hospital Management with the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, UK. Other externally funded projects include projects on Safe Motherhood, Social Obligations on Cancer Care, Managing Urban Health, and Building District Health Systems.
  
  In June 2004, IIMA Board approved the setting up of a Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS) under the Public Systems Group, in recognition of IIMA’s contributions to the health sector in the past and felt the need to strengthen the management of health services in the context of socio-economic developments of our country. The overall objectives of CMHS are to address the managerial challenges in the delivery of health services to respond to the needs of different segments of our population efficiently and effectively, build institutions of excellence in the health sector, and influence health policies and wider environments. Through these initiatives, CMHS is expected to achieve the following:   

• Provide thrust and long term sustainability for our involvement in Health sector.
• Highlight our commitment to social sector.
• Facilitate our involvement in large projects.
• Attract health care researchers from all over the world.
• Develop synergies with other institutions involved in healthcare management.
• Actively participate in the dissemination of knowledge.  

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  AGENDA FOR CMHS
  Governments all over the world are getting increasingly concerned about their ability to meet their social obligations on the healthcare needs of their citizens. This situation has become very critical in recent years in the light of an aging population, increasing expectations of service levels from various segments of the population, insufficient income of the people to pay for health services, and competing demands for government resources for various socio-economic development activities. Efficient and effective management of health services calls for a significant scaling up of the resources currently spent in health sector and tackling the non-financial obstacles that have limited the capacity to deliver health services. Building health systems that are responsive to client needs, particularly for the poor, requires politically difficult and administratively demanding choices.
  
  In order to understand the nature, magnitude, and complexity of the problems faced by the healthcare providers, professionals, and users, we sought inputs from the following key stakeholders through face-to-face discussions, group meetings, and e-mail communications:   

• Government of India: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Finance and Planning Commission.
• Government of Gujarat: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.
• Healthcare Industry Professionals
• Healthcare Management Training Institutions
• Medical Colleges
• Nursing Colleges
• International Agencies/Donors
• IIMA facility and students
  

  In this context, the agenda for CMHS is shown in the figure below.

  

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  CMHS - CURRENT ACTIVITIES
  Major Projects:

• British Council: Developing health related teaching and research base at IIM Ahmedabad jointly with Nuffield Institute for Health, Leeds University, Leeds, UK (2003-2006).
• DFID: Safe motherhood – Learning from South Asia: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (2004- 2007).
• Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA: Averting maternal death and disability.
• MacArthur Foundation: Capacity building on indicators for reproductive health.
• The World Bank: Management capacity constraints for safe motherhood.
• TNO, Netherlands: Distribution and mapping of indoor health facilities, quality criteria for hospital choice by patients, and etiology of traffic accidents.
• Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad: Vision, mission, and social obligations.
• Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation: Building urban health systems.
• National Kidney Foundation, Singapore: Case Development and Research projects.
• WHO, Geneva: Concept paper on infrastructure planning for district health systems.
• GTZ: German Technical Co-operation, India: Concept paper on service quality in healthcare delivery.
• Case Studied for Safe Motherhood: Learning from South Asian programmes  

  Capacity Building:  

• Programs for District/State Health Officers: Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra
• Hospital Management Programme

  Dissemination: (Seminars/Conferences/Workshops)  

• Human Resource Management in Healthcare
• Averting Maternal Mortality and Disability
• Public-Private Partnerships in Health
• Strategic Challenges in Health Services Management   

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  CMHS - FACULTIES  

• Anurag K. Agarwal
  L.L.M. (Harvard), L.L.D. (Lucknow)
• Tathagata Bandyopadhyay
  Ph.D. (Calcutta)
• Samir K. Barua
  M.Tech. (IIT, Kanpur)
  Fellow (IIMA)
• Ramesh Bhat
  Ph.D. (Delhi School of Economics)
• Deepti Bhatnagar
  Fellow (IIMA)
• Satish Deodhar
  Ph.D. (Ohio State)
• Tejas Desai
  Ph.D. (North Carolina)
• Goutam Dutta
  Ph.D. (Northwestern)
• Asha Kaul
  Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur)
• A.K.Laha
  Ph.D. (ISI, Calcutta)
• Sunil Maheshwari
  Fellow (IIMA)
• Dileep V. Mavalankar
  M.D. (Gujarat)
  Dr. Public Health (Johns Hopkins)
• Rajendra Patel
  AICWA, ACA, PGDM (IIMA)
• K.V.Ramani, Chairman
  Ph.D. (Cornell)
• N. Ravichandran
  Ph.D. (IIT, Madras)
• P.G. Vijaya Sherry Chand
  Ph.D. (Gujarat)
• Devanath Tirupati
  PGDM (IIMC), Ph.D. (MIT)
• Sanjay Verma
  Fellow (IIMC)

  Post Doctoral Fellow:

• Samruddhi Thaker
  Ph.D, & MHA (North Carolina), M.B.B.S. (Gujarat) 
  

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  CMHS - PROJECT STAFF

• Bharati Sharma
  M.Sc. (Child Development)
• Dipti Govil
  MA (Geography)
  Masters in Population Studies
• Kranti Vora
  M.D.(Obst.), M.P.H.
• Mudita Upadhyay
  MBA (Health & Hospital Management)
• Parvathy S. Raman
  M.Sc. (Demography)
• Priya Shastri
  B.A. (Eco.), B.Sc. (Biology)
• Shilpa Maiya
  M.Sc. (Anthropolgy)
• S.R.Patel
  M.B.B.S., D.P.H.
• Vidya B.K
  Ph.D. (Anthropolgy)
• Vinubhai M. Patel
  M.S.W., M.P.H.
  Ph.D. (Sociology)

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  CMHS - OFFICE STAFF

• Bharat K. Panchal
• Simi S. Menon

  CMHS Office
  Center for Management of Health Services
  Indian Institute of Management
  Vastrapur, Ahmedabad – 380 015
  India
  
  Telephone: 079 - 2632 4649/ 4699 • Fax: 079 - 2632 4698
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