Anusandhan Trust (AT) was established in 1991 to establish and run democratically managed Institutions to undertake research on health and allied themes; provide education and training, and initiate and participate in advocacy efforts on relevant issues concerned with the well-being of the disadvantaged and the poor in collaboration with organizations and individuals working with and for such people.
Trustees of the Anusandhan Trust constitute the Governing Board for all institutions established by the Trust. Presently there are nine trustees, each institution is headed by a Director appointed by the Trust and the institution functions autonomously within the framework of the founding principles laid down by Anusandhan Trust. Each institution is free to work out its own organizational and management arrangements. However, the Trust has set up two structures, independent of its institutions, which protect and help facilitate the implementation of its founding principles: The Social Accountability Group which periodically conducts a social audit and the Ethics Committee responsible for ethics review of all work carried out by institutions of the Trust. The Secretariat looks at the financial management of Anusandhan Trust and its institutions.
To promote activities and institutions that undertake, within a human rights framework, research & publication, advocacy, services, training and activities (RASTA) in arenas that lead to strengthening of human development and social security, especially in areas of public health policy, health rights, health systems and financing, and other economic, social and cultural rights in partnership and involvement of people in its oversight and monitoring towards realizing universal and equitable access.
We envision a society which has eliminated health inequities by minimizing the social and economic disparities ad has realized its right to health and health care; and where universal access to social security which is equitable, ethical and socially just and accountable and responsive to the needs of the people is established.