We work with institutions from around the world to collaborate on research and other projects. Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram The Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (AMCHSS) is recognised as a centre of excellence for public health training by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Government of India. The centre continuously carries out training and research in different areas of public health. In addition to two years MPH programmes, it also offers both regular and part time PhD programme. The Centre has research collaborations with major universities, such as the University of Arizona in the USA, Melbourne and Monash Universities in Australia, the University of Edinburgh in the UK and Heidelberg University, Germany. Achutha Menon Centre website Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute website Partners Professor K. R. Thankappan, Head of Centre and Co-I of Network Professor V. Ramankutty Professor T.K.Sundari Ravindran Professor Srinivasan Kannan Professor Biju Soman Heidelberg University Department of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg The Department of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute specializes in Medical Anthropology, with various staff members conducting research on ritual healing, folk medicine, South Indian medicine, health and environment, Ayurveda, Tibetan Medicine, gender and health, women's reproductive health and Islam, and other topics. One of our greatest strengths is the cooperation between the Deptartment of Anthropology with other Departments within the South Asia Institute. Heidelberg University website Partners Professor William Sax Professor Harish Naraindas Dr Anand Chopra Roman Sieler, MA Raphael Mousa, MA Gaurav Lamichhane, MA Alicia Finger, MA Margarita Lipatova, MA Poonam Kamath, MA Maria Steinisch, MA Sandra Baernreuther, MA Svetla Loukanova, PD Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith PD Dr Michael Marx Dr Constanze Weigl Dr Karin Polit Dr Christian Struempell Dr Johannes Quack Sylvia Sax, MPH Revati Phalkey, MS Muhammad Ashraf, MA Jawaharlal Nehru University The Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH) is one of the eight Centres of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). CSMCH visualises its aims in recognition of the critical need of delineating a field of enquiry in the discipline and generating a data base for public health in India. It trains both social scientists and physicians to apply themselves academically to the huge tasks of public health in India. Over the past 25 years, the Centre has acquired rich experience in evolving problem-oriented interdisciplinary academic programmes in addition to building an active research base. At the same time, efforts have also been made at constructing institutional links with policy making. Jawaharlal Nehru University Partners Professor Mohan Rao Professor Rama V. Baru Professor Ritu Priya Mehrotra Professor Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya Professor Rajib Dasgupta Professor Ramila Bisht Associate Professor Sunita Reddy Assistant Professor Ghodajkar Prachinkumar Rajeshrao Assistant Professor Vikas Bajpai This article was published on 2023-11-21
