India

We've been strengthening public health in India for more than four decades.

India has tremendous health needs along with ever-expanding capacity to develop solutions. We’ve been working with public and private partners here since 1978 to address health challenges, share technical know-how, and, increasingly, support local innovation.

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Fortified rice being cooked for a school lunch program in India. PATH provides technical expertise for scale-up of fortified rice, supply chain optimization, quality assurance and control, social behavior change, evidence generation, and more. Photo:PATH.

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Focused on equity

Everyone deserves the chance to live a healthy life. We forge partnerships to develop, adapt, and scale up solutions to accelerate progress toward health equity.

By the numbers
22+
states where PATH is accelerating health equity in India.
700+
staff working towards health impact.
40M+
lives improved by our work every year.

Strengthening health systems

We are committed to reduce the burden of disease in India. We work with the governments of several states to bring lasting improvements to health systems.

What we do
Addressing India's health challenges through partnerships and innovation.
Eliminating infectious diseases

We develop and implement new approaches to prevent, manage and eliminate infectious diseases, prepare for potential pandemics, address the challenges of TB, HIV, hepatitis and neglected tropical diseases such as visceral leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis, dengue, malaria and reduce mortality due to acute encephalitis syndrome. We provide technical support to various states to implement innovative solutions, institutionalize sustainable engagement models, strengthen surveillance, track and train healthcare workers, and collect and analyze data for these diseases.

Advancing immunization and vaccine access

We work with India’s leading vaccine manufacturers to develop and deliver lifesaving vaccines. We help stakeholders to do preclinical research on new candidates, conduct pivotal clinical evaluations and, ultimately, develop innovative approaches for new vaccine introduction and immunization system strengthening. With our partners, we developed the first- and second-ever Indian vaccines against Rotavirus. We have two decades of experience in advancing Japanese encephalitis immunization services in India. We test the scalability of new cold chain equipment, such as the freeze-preventive vaccine carrier which allows for safe transportation of vaccines.

Improving family health and nutrition

India accounts for 40 percent of the global burden of low-birth weight babies and 17 percent of global maternal deaths. We collaborate with partners to strengthen newborn nutrition and provide essential health care interventions for mothers and babies to improve health outcomes. We enable access to tools to improve accurate screening and diagnosis of illness in children under five. We work with the government to increase access to affordable, high-quality reproductive health supplies. To tackle micronutrient malnutrition and anemia, we work with stakeholders to introduce fortified rice into the government’s food safety net programs.

Driving digital health and innovations to scale

We are at the forefront of enabling digital transformation in India. We support the development and implementation of digital tools across public health programs enhancing program effectiveness and the government’s ability to leverage the power of data. We have an expert system-integrating platform called the Impact Lab to support the ‘Lab To Market’ journey of innovators. We bring governments, non-profits, private sector, regulatory bodies and international organizations together for such innovations to be adopted by health systems locally and globally.

Accelerating health impact across South Asia

PATH’s India team also supports critical health projects in the region. We are spearheading efforts to reduce anti-microbial resistance in Sri Lanka, testing new treatment options against visceral leishmaniasis in Bangladesh and supporting the field trials of cold chain equipment for low resource settings in Nepal.

Our offices

Our head office is in New Delhi.

We also have offices in Mumbai and Lucknow.

Contact

Phone: +91 11 4064 0000

Email: india@path.org

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Our work in India

Meet our team

  1. Swati Mahajan

    Health Systems Lead, India Country Program

  2. Neeraj Jain

    Country Director, India, and Hub Director, South Asia

  3. Dr. Satyabrata Routray

    Director, Infectious Diseases

  4. Ajit Singh

    State Lead, Bihar

  5. Dr. Sudhir Maknikar

    Director, Family Health

  6. Kushal Mazumdar

    Director, Finance and Operations

  7. Nivedita Kumar

    HR Director, AMEE

  8. Dr. Sachin Gupte

    State Lead, Uttar Pradesh

  9. Rishabh Chopra

    Lead, Strategy and Communications

  10. Sameer Kanwar

    Director, Digital Health

PATH in India

India country program overview (PDF)

India continues to be one of the most populous countries on the planet, and one that consequentially faces immense health challenges for a growing population. Learn more about how PATH is constantly innovating and evolving to address India’s pressing health challenges.

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