Nimhans to work with UK health agency

Nimhans has signed an MoU with Public Health England (PHE) to set up collaborative programmes in mental health and public health system models, including Public Health Observatories (PHOs).

Nimhans hosted the second India-UK roundtable on establishing India’s first PHO on August 2 and 3. B N Gangadhar, director, Nimhans, said: “The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare notified the Mental Health Care Act on May 29, 2018. Our country is at the crossroads of a major transformation that can benefit from strong PHO networks for physical as well as mental health. The planning for the Ayushman Bharat programme presents another opportunity to create community-level interventions powered by big data and intelligence to help implement the act.”