Our Centres

CEHAT

Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) was started in 1994 as a Research Centre of the Anusandhan Trust. CEHAT began as an experiment to bridge the gap between academic theory and grassroots practice.

As a health research institution, CEHAT is not a conventional “people’s organisation,” and does not pretend to be so. But its identification with people’s movements and organisations is more in terms of selecting socially relevant, pro-people themes and topics for research to strengthen people’s health movement and to realise the right to health and health care. Our research is not undertaken with mere academic interests, rather we take efforts to share the findings with grassroots organisations and make the research findings usable for social change, campaigns and advocacy. Know More – www.cehat.org

SATHI

SATHI (Support to Advocacy and Training to Health Initiatives) – The Pune-based centre of Anusandhan Trust works on issues related to health rights, and facilitates interventions at the local, district, state and national levels. Adopting a rights-based approach, SATHI works towards promoting the perspective that makes these systems accountable and responsive to public needs, through organized and sustained public action with a goal to promote sustainable and impactful health-related community-level action in underprivileged rural/tribal, and urban areas across Maharashtra, towards ensuring healthy communities.

Our approach is centred on building connections between frontline workers, primary healthcare institutions, and marginalised communities. Our work focuses on promoting healthcare for all, with a special emphasis on marginalised communities and agenda of strengthening the public health system and primary healthcare. To achieve this goal, we leverage our health system expertise to improve access and delivery of public health services in both rural and urban areas. Know More – www.sathicehat.org

CSER

Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights (CSER) was promoted by Anusandhan Trust to work on bioethics/medical ethics from the very beginning. The Trust decided to establish a long-term focused programme on ethics under a separate centre. This centre began functioning from January 2005 to June 2013 in Mumbai.

Anusandhan Trust was established in 1991 under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 (Registration No: E-13480) 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 organisations and individuals working with and for such people.

The Trust governed three centres:

CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) : commenced in 1994 concentrates or focuses on its core area of strength – social and public health research and policy advocacy.

SATHI (Support for Advocacy and Training in Health Initiatives) : From 1st April 2005 SATHI has developed into full-fledged institution primarily involved in health action and campaigns. SATHI is based in Pune.

CSER (Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights) : The Trust promoted work on bioethics/medical ethics from the very beginning. The Trust decided to establish a long-term focused programme on ethics under a separate centre. This centre began functioning from January 2005 in Mumbai.

The Board of Trustees at a Special Meeting of the Trust held on May 11, 2013, decided to change the structure of CSER from an independent Centre to a programme, Research Programme on Ethics, directly under the Trust.

This structural change applies only to CSER. CEHAT and SATHI continue as autonomous Centres.

The decision of the Trust on the redefinition of CSER has been taken on the count of the sustainability of an independent Centre for this work. The structural change means that CSER now no longer has a separate identity and does not exist as autonomous Centre. The coordination of its current tasks lies with the Managing Trustee in the interim. The Trust ensures the discharge of all current commitments of CSER.

A Research Programme on Ethics has been formed under the Trust facilitated by a Committee constituted by the Trust responsible to the Managing Trustee. The Committee may decide to pursue work broadly along the same lines as carried out so far, or redefine the scope of work within the broad parameters.

This decision of the Trust in no way reflects upon and nor is prejudicial to the academic and other work of CSER and its staff.

For any further information please contact the Managing Trustee (Padma Prakash) at anusandhan.trust91@gmail.com or Nobhojit Roy, facilitator of the Research Committee on Ethics at nobsroy@gmail.com.

July 1, 2013

1) Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights: Integration of Medical Education with Primary and Secondary Health Care: Case study of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra (consultancy for CIPS) read more

2) Centre for Studies in Ethics and Rights: Samarpan: Centre for Early Identification and Treatment of Children for Disability or Developmental Delay (consultancy for CIPS) read more

3) Innovations in Public Systems- Maharashtra Medical Council- Need for Self Regulation of Health Care- A Case Study with Details for Replication. read more

4) CIS consultancy on Privacy of Medical Information read more

5) CSER contributed towards production of a film on Sewa Rural namely “Pregnancy, Prescriptions and Protocol” read more

6) Putting CROs on the Radar: An exploratory study on the outsourcing of clinical trials by pharmaceutical companies to contract research organisations in non- traditional trial regions. read more

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SATHI

CSER

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