New Delhi: Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, Delhi University plans to set up a Delhi School of Public Health (DSPH) under the Central government’s Institution of Eminence (IoE) scheme.
DU said the proposed institute will be a major step to boost its research efforts on public health.
“The Delhi School of Public Health aims to become a premier organisation in the country and globally to initiate research/teaching/outreach programmes in the field of public health by involving researchers from diverse backgrounds such as medicine, biomedical sciences, and social sciences,” Hindustan Times quoted a DU statement as saying.
“The motto of the School will be development of better strategies and technologies and their social impacts to achieve ‘health for all’,” it added.
DSPH will be headed by Prof RNK Bamezai, former vice chancellor of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University. He is an acclaimed public health expert and a Padma Shri awardee.
An advisory council consisting of eminent professionals working in the field of public health has been constituted for planning, designing and managing the academic activities and programmes of the DSPH.
The IoE is part of an HRD Ministry scheme announced in 2018 to select 20 IoEs — 10 public and 10 private — that will enjoy complete academic and administrative autonomy.
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