Formation December 30, 1932 Phone 033 2241 2888 Type of business GO | Region served India Founded 30 December 1932 | |
Director G.K.Pandey (2011-present) Parent organisation Director General of Health Services, New Delhi, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Similar West Bengal University, Swasthya Bhawan, All India Council for Technical, Central Public Works De, National Institute of Cholera a | ||
All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health (AIIH&PH), is a pioneering Indian institute for research and training in public health and allied sciences in Kolkata. It was established on 30 December 1932 with assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation. It functions under Director General of Health Services, New Delhi, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and is now affiliated with West Bengal University of Health Sciences, established in 2003.
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In 1943 borehole latrine was developed by AIIPH with joint collaboration with Rockefeller Foundation.
History
Established with the aid of Rockefeller Foundation, AIIHPH was inaugurated by Sir John Anderson, the Governor of Bengal on December 30, 1932. The AIIH&PH was a constituent college of the University of Calcutta. Since its inception, the college is in collaboration with the faculty of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine. In 1953, the Institute was accredited by WHO and UNICEF as an International Training Centre. The institute carried out the first village health survey in India in 1944-1945, in which general health survey of nearly 1200 families comprising 7000 members in West Bengal was done. After independence, extension plans were drawn in 1950, cost of 90 lakhs, shared equally by Union Health Ministry and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, to build a Child and Maternity Health section at the institute.
In 1995, a public health scientist Dr. Smarajit Jana of AIHPH for Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, sex worker's organisation which works for prevention of HIV/AIDS amongst its 65,000 sex workers. In 2004, the AIIH&PH got affiliated to the newly formed West Bengal University of Health Sciences (WBUHS).
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It is also one of the nine institutions in India, which offer Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Health Management. While the main campus is at Chittaranjan Avenue, in 2011 its second campus at Salt Lake City, Kolkata also became operational.