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Studying organisational change in Indian district health systems: end of a PhD journey

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On 21st April, 2015 I defended my public health PhD dissertation at Universite

Public defence at UCL. Clicking the photo takes you to the ITM public health department's blog on the defence

Public defence at UCL. Clicking the photo takes you to the ITM public health department’s blog on the defence

Catholique de Louvain in Brussels. I sought to understand  organisational change within district health systems in an Indian district. The research was carried out in Tumkur district in southern Karnataka (on which I have blogged a bit). I focused on understanding “change” within a public service bureaucracy like the one we have in Karnataka. Continue reading →

Evaluating healthcare interventions: Answering the HOW question

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Health programme evaluation is still coming of age in India. In general, seeking

Evaluating Healthcare Interventions: Answering the 'How" Question

Evaluating Healthcare Interventions: Answering the ‘How” Question

an evidence-base for decision-making within public services is still a missing feature in our policymaking process. In any case, it is not because there is scientific evidence that something becomes (or should become) a policy anyway. This presumptuousness has (rightly) frustrated many a researcher-scientist. Continue reading →