*Draft for review by IPH colleagues with institutional memory. Also see this evolving initiative Wall Stories ಗೋಡೆಕಥೆಗಳು]
How this was put together
Based on rapid scan and thematic analysis of my email archives from 2007 to date.
Events
| Year | Milestone | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | IPH founded (Foundation Day 30 August) by a group of public health professionals, with Dr N Devadasan as founding Director | Society documents | Confirmed. 🟡List of co-founders |
| 2006 | Early IPH website hosts health insurance manuals | Email, Nov 2006 | Manoharan? Possibly based on Drupal? Need to check on IA if still available |
| 2007 | Joint health management training with Karuna Trust | Email, Aug 2007 | At the time ND’s PhD study on community-bsed health insurance featured this among 10 other models? An important paper that shaped the thinking at hte times on social protection in health from CHI |
| 2008 | ITM Antwerp faculty visit IPH (Feb); steering committee for the ITM-IPH institutional collaboration set up (May); monthly reporting begins (Jun) | Emails, 2008 | Early DGD funding? FA3? FAR 🟡UB to confirm |
| 2008 | IPH quality standards applied in Karuna Trust PHCs IPH to support to the Tumkur district health plan under NRHM | Emails, 2008 | Early origins of what was later called the Swasthya Karnataka initiative which was the origins of my own PhD and such |
| 2010 | First Evidence to Public Health Policy (EPHP) conference | Later references | 🟡Find archival video & material online |
| 2012 | EPHP 2012, streamed live, with ITM | Emails, Sep to Nov 2012 | 🟡Find archival video & material online |
| 2012 | UHC measurement tool and UHC manual published; WHO-commissioned research protocol; press coverage of the RSBY health insurance study | Emails, Oct to Dec 2012 | Still available online for all of INR 200! https://www.amazon.in/Towards-Universal-Health-Coverage-India-ebook/dp/B00A3Y99UK |
| 2012 | E-learning Public Health Management (ePHM) course launched with ITM | Emails, Nov to Dec 2012 | Confirmed. ==🟡First batch year to verify with HHN== |
| 2012 | Staff invited to nominate themselves to the IPH Direction Committee | Email, Nov 2012 | Direction committee as the first experiemnt with shared leadership |
| 2016 | Application for SIRO recognition to DSIR (Oct); recognition granted, F.No. 13/296/2016 | Email; certificate number | 🟡RR to confirm |
| 2016 | Period of regulatory compliance work (FCRA) handled by the IPH team | Emails, Nov 2016 | Various hardships |
| 2016 | Tripartite MoU between VGKK, IPH and the Soliga sangha | Email, Nov 2016 | Following on the participatory action reserch in maternal health work that began with Tanya/VGKK in 2012-13; some of it documented here on the Alliance for HPSR page later on |
| 2016 | IPH nominated for the Health Systems Global Societal Award | Email, Oct 2016 | Not successful |
| 2018 | Annual Day Oration series begins | Email record of speakers | First orator being Dhananjay a Supreme court/HC lawyer |
| 2019 | Dr Upendra Bhojani becomes Director (July); Dr Devadasan moves to the Governing Board after 13 years | ||
| 2021 | DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance approves setting up of the first centre grant, the Centre for Training, Research & Innovation in Tribal Health (CTRITH) as a multi-institutional centre in Chamarajanagar; Team Science grant | Award letters | |
| 2021 | TN Khoshoo Memorial Award (ATREE) to Prashanth N S and Tanya Seshadri | Award announcement | See https://tnk.atree.org/ |
| 2022 | Deccan Herald Changemakers award to Prshanth N S & Tanya Seshadri | https://22in22.deccanherald.com/tanya-seshadri-and-prashanth-n-s | |
| 2022 | MoU with the Tribal Welfare Department, forest department & Health & Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka, GO on tribal health navigation | MoU copy; GO | |
| 2023 | Prashanth N S becomes Director (1 July) | Annual Day 2023 | |
| 2024 | NIHR funds the rTribe study; second India Alliance centre grant | Award letters | |
| 2025 | 20th anniversary at IISc (22 Aug); T.T. Narasimhan School of Advanced Studies launched by the Health Minister; ICMR TB stigma grant; state order for the Tribal Health Navigator programme (Dec) | Invitations; press coverage; grant letters | Press coverage links |
| 2026 | EPHP 2026 at IIM Bangalore; IAPSM Karnataka chapter’s Health Systems and Policy Research Award to PNS; IPH Bengaluru recognised as ICMR Collaborating Centre of Excellence | Emails; publication |
Several gaps
- HESVIC as first EC project?
- First office location → 2nd office at Girinagar → 3rd office (current)
- Establishment of the BR Hills “field station”
- Initiation of work in KG Halli & urban health, UB PhD work & exit from KGH in 2016 due to FCRA woes
- Initiation of work in Tumkur, Swasthya Karnataka district health system strengthening work
- Emerging Voices for Global Health secretariat
- HENI secretariat
Annual Day orators
| Year | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Shri K V Dhananjay |
| 2019 | Dr Ravi Narayan |
| 2020 | Prof. Gita Sen |
| 2021 | Dr C Madegowda |
| 2022 | Dr Roopa Devadasan |
| 2023 | Dr Pranay Lal |
| 2024 | Dr Soumya Swaminathan |
| 2025 | Ms Uma Mahadevan |
Last updated: 2026-11-07 12:40