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IIHMR University to celebrate 36th Foundation Day on October 5

Oct 4, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. P. R. Sodani, #Dr. S.D. Gupta, #IIHMR University

Jaipur, October 2020: IIHMR University, a premier health management institute of the country, is celebrating its 36th Foundation day on 5th October 2020. This year, due to CVID 19, the program will be held virtually, which will stretch for one hour. The students, staff, and faculty members of the institution will connect through an online platform to celebrate the much-awaited program.

Dr. S. D. Gupta, Chairperson, IIHMR University, will be the keynote speaker. He will address the students and members of IIHMR University through an online platform. A ‘Welcome Act’ will be presented by the students of the institution. Dr. P. R Sodani, President (Officiating), IIHMR University, will give a welcome address. A much-awaited cultural program will follow this. The students from all three schools, across streams, will perform in this annual cultural event.

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IIHMR University Introduces Executive Certificate Programme on Corporate Social Responsibility

Sep 29, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. P. R. Sodani, #Executive Certificate Programme on Corporate Social Responsibility, #IIHMR University, #Mr. Rusen Kumar

September 2020:The School of Development Studies, IIHMR University has introduced a three-week online executive certificate program on ‘Optimizing CSR for Greater Good’ from 23 September to 11 October 2020, in association with India CSR.

The program will give a platform to middle and senior corporate and development executives. They will learn about the changing CSR scenarios post COVID-19 as well as the desired CSR interventions for broader impact. The program has been designed with innovative and ragogical tools focusing on the integration of research-driven learning. The first group of enrolled participants comprises 21 middle and senior CSR executives from more than 10 companies and development organizations.

The course is delivered by eminent industry and academia resource persons including Mr. Ashok Pavadia, Founder & Director, Council for Research on Policy and Governance; Mr. Jawahar K., Program Director, Confederation of Indian Industries-CII Foundation; Mr. Pooran Chandra Pande, Former Executive Director, UNGCI; Shri Kaushik Sinha, Head, CSR, Corporate Communications & Corporate Services, Magma Fincorp Ltd; Mr. Aniisu K Verghese, Internal Communications expert, and CSR leader; Dr. Shiv Tripathi, Professor, Dean-Training, IIHMR University, Jaipur; Prof Rahul Ghai, Dean-SDS, IIHMR University, Jaipur; Dr. Goutam Sadhu, Professor, SDS, IIHMR University, Jaipur; Dr. Sandeep Narurla, Associate Professor, SDS, IIHMR University, Jaipur; and Dr. Sazzad Parwez, Faculty, SDS, IIHMR University, Jaipur.

During the inaugural session of the program, Dr. P.R. Sodani, Pro-President, IIHMR University, emphasized the changing role of strategic CSR in dealing with the challenges of COVID-19. Prof. Rahul Ghai elaborated on how the IIHMR University is promoting CSR through specialized research-oriented education.

Commenting on the program’s launch, Mr. Rusen Kumar, Founder of India CSR, said that CSR has brought great opportunity to serve society and learn from society. He also stressed that developing an appropriate learning path for CSR leaders is a need for hours. Program Coordinator Dr. Sazzad Parvez shared the details of the program.

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Transparency Becomes More Important During Covid Pandemic to Retain Trust of People: Experts at IIHMR-CEGET Webinar

Sep 19, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. P. R. Sodani, #Dr. S.D. Gupta, #IIHMR University, #Ms. Sarah Steingrüber, #Prof. Wolfgang C. Amann

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Jaipur, September 2020: Transparency and ethical business experts have expressed concern at the increased risk of corruption due to the COVID-19-induced pandemic at a webinar titled ‘Transparency, Ethics and Integrity in Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Sector’ by IIHMR University and the Centre of Excellence for Governance, Ethics and Transparency (CEGET) at Global Compact Network India (GCNI). The speakers emphasized that transparency is a vital component to build an effective and efficient health care system, and the lack of transparency in healthcare threatens to erode public trust.

“Globally, USD 7 trillion is spent on corruption, and 7% of it is lost. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the performance pressure has gone up, the government pressure for speed has increased and hence, there is huge money floating around. 70% of countries have reported new forms of corruption during COVID-19. Corruption evolves rapidly, and so do the challenges. We need rapid, broad, state-of-the-art education and technology to counter that,” said Prof. Wolfgang C. Amann, Academic Programme Director, HEC Paris.

“Transparency is essential for good governance, as it increases accountability. There are so many ethical issues in the pharmaceutical and health sectors, including producing crescendo data, the quest for profit-making, and not following rules and ethics. One of the causes of poor quality is the lack of sharing of information. Transparency is important from a moral point of view. It is important for providers, regulators, and recipients to assured information, pricing, and treatment quality. The need of the hour is to have more capacity building programmes for health care professionals that focus on values and ethics.,” said“Dr. S.D. Gupta, Chairman, IIHMR University. Dr. Gupta was also chairing the session”.

“The amount of money donated for research for a vaccine for COVID-19 increases the risk of corruption and the processes to ensure transparency in clinical trials are very nascent. Harnessing and maintaining public trust in public institutions is important. There needs to be more research on corruption in the healthcare sector. Currently, there is very little research and advocacy surrounding the issue. This is an issue that needs more health care professionals caring about it. The change must come from within the sector, not outside. Since health is a human right issue, tackling corruption must be a part of our daily bread,” said “Ms. Sarah Steingrüber, an Independent Global Health Consultant from Germany”
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Identifying that compliance is a business reputation need, Prof. Matthias Kleinhempel, Director, Centre for Governance and Transparency, IAE Business School, Argentina, said, “The incentive programmes are short-term financial goals without any regard to how it is achieved. We need an adequate incentive system. High percentages of pay tied to short term financial goals promote money-making. To reduce corruption, it is important to tie pay to long-term and non-financial goals. The incentive programs are short-term financial goals without any regard to how it is achieved.”

“In the health sector, transparency and ethics are key pillars for quality health care services. Transparency is must if we are talking about patient-centric health care services. IIHMR has discussed this in the past and will continue to bring forth the multiple aspects of this eternally-valid concept,” said Dr. P R Sodani, Pro-President, IIHMR University.

“Corruption should be considered at a local context and effective implementation of anti-corruption policies is a key. The first step is to conduct a corruption risk assessment to gauge the corruption risks, impact, and likelihood. It is possible to build an anti-corruption compliance programme once these assessments are centralized into most urgent and pressing issues.” said “Ms. Ashley Demming, Project Manager, United Nations Global Compact, New York”.

Prof. Ronald E. Berenbeim, Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business and Senior Fellow, Conference Board, the US, said that Macro-level corruption happens when a company’s efforts do not maximize the efficiency of the economy and benefits to all its participants. There are four kinds of market failure – monopoly, negative externalities, corporation utilization of public goods, and information asymmetries.

The esteemed session was moderated by Prof. Shiv K. Tripathi, Dean (Training), IIHMR University and Ms. Shabnam Siddiqui, Director-CEGET, Global Compact Network India.

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Higher Education Students Demand Focus on Mental Health in NEP-2020: IIHMR UniversityWebinar

Sep 9, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. P. R. Sodani, #Dr. Prabhat Ranjan, #IIHMR UniversityWebinar, #Mental Health in NEP-2020

September 2020: The new education universe, as envisioned by the NEP-2020, should address the mental health of students in the Indian higher education and focus on employable skilling, a student representative at a webinar titled ‘Dialogue on National Education Policy 2020: Transforming Education System of India’ by IIHMR University said.

“The aspect of students’ mental health should be majorly highlighted as India has the highest rates of suicide cases. Many students face undignified behaviour due to different personality shades, which also contributes to their poor mental health. We must focus more on employable skilling, considering the creativity of students, and employable education so that students have a job after completing their education,” said Rishabh Singh, a student representative, from IIHMR University, at the webinar.

Speaking about the National Education Policy’s objectives, 2020, Prof. Rajendra P Gupta, a former member of the NEP-2020 committee, said, “We have not attended to education since the Kothari Commission. The policy’s objective is to bring district-level self-sufficiency in education, reduce regulatory hurdles, and reduce artificial barriers by de-siloing education.”

“The University of Delhi had employed a Four-Year Undergraduate Program (FYUP), which caused much heartburn. The implementation of the policy should be taken seriously – there are 100 million teachers who need to become change partners; if we don’t carry them along, then there will be major trouble in implementing this education policy,” says Prof Venkat Raman, FMS, University of Delhi.

“The NEP-2020 has the potential to transform the education system of India and keeps the sustainable development goals and societal needs in mind. It will promote speed, efficiency, and diversity along with access, equity, quality, accountability, and transparency,” said Dr. Sandeep Sancheti, Vice-Chancellor, SRM Institute of Science and Technology.

“NEP has a significant footprint on liberal education all over. The policy has made a very impressive argument of moving from a single-disciplinary university system to a multidisciplinary approach and from a fragmented and siloed education system to an integrated system of education, giving us ways of handling the challenges by placing the universities into broad categories,” said Prof. Ramesh Bhat, Vice-Chancellor, NMIMS University.

“We have in the past campaigns to improve access to education such as Right to Education Act and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). The policy now will require out-of-the-box thinking and willingness to adopt it. The new education policy is a path-breaking one and will help the younger generation with the new competencies required in the 21st century,” says Dr. S D Gupta, Chairperson, IIHMR University.

Highlighting the policy’s focus on arts and humanities along with science, Dr. Ajit K Nagpal, Chairman, Amity PACIFIC Forum, Chairman and Director General, Amity University Middle East Initiative; and Former Health Advisor to the UAE Government, said, “The country’s identity, upliftment, spiritual and intellectual satisfaction, and creativity can be attained through learning about its history as well as art and culture. Research in arts and humanities and science and innovation will take the country forward in becoming a developed nation. This policy rightly addresses the way forward.”

“The policy allows common entrance tests for all students, but there should be multiple parameters for assessing the complete process, focusing on all areas and not only any single parameter. All regulatory bodies should be merged to improve India’s education system,” said Dr. Prabhat Ranjan, Vice-Chancellor, D. Y. Patil International University.

Dr. P. R. Sodani, Pro President, IIHMR University, and Moderator of the webinar said that the NEP emphasized that NEP intends to ensure equitable access to the highest level of quality education to all the learners irrespective of their socio-economic background.
The webinar on “Dialogue on National Education Policy 2020: Transforming Education System of India” was conducted by IIHMR University, Jaipur.

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IIHMR Inducted into the Prestigious United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI)

Sep 5, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Dr. P. R. Sodani, #IIHMR University, #Pro President

Jaipur, September 2020: IIHMR University,a premier higher education institution in the field of healthcare management and development studies have been inducted as a member of the prestigious United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI).

United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is a United Nations initiative that aligns higher education institutions in supporting and contributing to realizing the UN’s goals and mandates, including the promotion and protection of human rights, access to education, advancing peace, sustainability, and conflict resolution.

Through this membership, IIHMR joins 1470 institutions in 146 countries, including about 150 institutions from India.[1]As a part of the UNAI, the institution will play an essential role in achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by becoming the incubator of new ideas, inventions, and solutions to many global challenges. Besides, the membership will allow IIHMR to harness the international community to foster innovation and research in humanity.

“We are delighted to have the privilege of becoming a member of this prestigious body. UNAI provides a unique platform where university students, academics and researchers can connect and share ideas, research, and resources to promote the SDGs and other UN mandates. The IIHMR University has been working to provide equal opportunity in healthcare management and development studies education for more than three decades and focuses on issues in healthcare, gender equality, human rights, and sustainable development,” says Dr. P. R. Sodani, Pro President, IIHMR University.