| The All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health was established in 1932, with the prime objective of providing postgraduate training in the principles and methods of public health and preventive medicine in the Indian perspective. The Institute has been involved in training, research, communicable disease control, environmental sanitation, food and nutrition projects, maternal and child health programmes, and public health practice through the Rural Health Unit and Training Centre at Singur and the Urban Health Centre at Chetla. It has been involved in direct service through emergency, specialist, and community services and in national planning. The staff members of the Institute have published over 700 articles, the most important of which are listed. |