About AHSAS
Born at the first National Workshop cum CME on Health Systems Strengthening in 2015 at the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, and registered as a society in 2018.
Who we are
AHSAS is a multidisciplinary network of professionals from health and from other sectors, such as information technology, inventory management and management, who have worked in public health systems or non-profit organisations.
We bring people who run health programmes together with researchers, so that practical experience becomes shared learning across states.
Join AHSAS if you
- have a passion to contribute to health systems and want a platform for it
- want to do action or implementation research, or contribute to teaching and training
- want to publish and share your implementation experience in our journal
Aims and objectives
The objectives of the society are:
- I.Capacity building for health systems strengthening in India
- II.Case studies of best practices across states for inter-state learning
- III.Implementation research for health systems strengthening
- IV.An online and print journal on health systems analysis and strengthening
- V.Community awareness and capacity for community monitoring
- VI.Scholarships and small research grants for public health students
Governing Body
Governance & documents →Dr Arun K Aggarwal
President (founding)
Professor
Dr Tanvi Kiran
Secretary
Associate Professor
Dr Poonam Khanna
Treasurer
Additional Professor
Dr Neeru Gupta
Executive Member
Retd. Dental Surgeon
Dr Divya
Executive Member
PhD Scholar
Dr Anubhuti Sharma
Executive Member
PhD Scholar
Dr Deepsikha Sharma
Executive Member
Coordinator
The Governing Body has 7 to 15 members, serves a five-year term and meets at least every six months.