Ahmedabad College has arrange the Bagchi College of Public Well being. Established in 2023, the College is now named in honour of famend philanthropists Susmita and Subroto Bagchi. The Bagchi College of Public Well being goals to revolutionise public well being training and analysis in India. The Bagchi couple’s grant of ₹55 crores will gas the event of world-class bodily, digital, and mental infrastructure. This funding empowers the varsity to change into a worldwide chief in public well being training and analysis.
The Bagchi College leverages Ahmedabad College’s distinctive interdisciplinary surroundings and integrates analysis, training, and motion. The Bagchi College will break new floor by prioritising rigorous structured Grasp’s and PhD programmes in particular core public well being disciplines. The College’s flagship programme, a PhD in Epidemiology, equips college students with the required superior analytical in addition to delicate expertise to sort out complicated public well being challenges, each ongoing and unexpected. Preliminary focus space embrace Environmental Well being, Analytical Strategies for Well being together with Biostatistics and Information Science. This give attention to specialisation and superior analytical strategies addresses a crucial hole in India’s public well being training panorama.
Analysis will give attention to discovering sustainable options to enhance life-style, scientific apply, coverage, and the surroundings. The College’s motion arm will translate analysis findings into modern, evidence-based initiatives and insurance policies. The Bagchi College additionally fosters collaboration by way of the Sahyog Centre for Selling Well being, established in partnership with the Self Employed Girls’s Affiliation (SEWA). This Centre empowers people, communities, and organisations to make wholesome and eco-friendly decisions.
The Vice-Chancellor of Ahmedabad College, Professor Pankaj Chandra, mentioned, “It’s a matter of delight for us that Ms Susmita Bagchi and Mr Subroto Bagchi selected our establishment to implement their imaginative and prescient of making data and serving to the underserved. Their help will assist construct international leaders in public well being out of India. As a College selling interdisciplinary analysis and training, this can be a distinctive setting for public well being college, practitioners, and college students to considerably outline our nation’s well being agenda.” Mr Subroto Bagchi, co-founder of Mindtree, creator and public servant, commented, “COVID opened our eyes to the massive hole within the sphere of public well being training and analysis in India. We reached out to Ahmedabad College, as we had had a number of earlier interactions with them that deeply impressed us with regard to their imaginative and prescient, skill to foster and execute improvements, and their holistic strategy to training and analysis.”
Ms Susmita Bagchi, creator and public servant, added, “Initially, we had funded a Chair in order that the College might appeal to a extremely revered, globally skilled educational who would develop a College of Public Well being like a start-up. Professor Kaumudi Joshipura emerged as the perfect individual for this function. With nice management in place, we really feel assured that the establishment will create a legacy for no less than the following 100 years, and we need to up our engagement.”
The Dean of the Bagchi College of Public Well being, Professor Kaumudi Joshipura remarked, “The College will give attention to delivering high-quality rigorous training programmes, whereas concurrently figuring out and selling no-cost, low-cost, and cost-saving interventions to assist enhance well being, particularly for the underprivileged segments of society. On behalf of the college, the present and future generations of scholars, and the communities that may profit, I want to categorical my gratitude to Mr Subroto Bagchi and Ms Susmita Bagchi for his or her invaluable contribution on this endeavour.”
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