Significant

Milestones

Every Milestone, A Step Towards Change.
  • Launched the FHTS IAPSM Public Health Innovation Award during 53rd Annual National Conference of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine held from February 27 to March 1, 2026 at NAMO Medical Education & Research Institute, Silvassa, U.T. of Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu.
  • Published: FHTS Magazine 2026

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  • FHTS and Commonwealth University St. Lucia have entered into a partnership, to establish Commonwealth University College of Public Health Technologies (CUCOPHT), developing academic programs, research opportunities, and an FHTS SMAART Center to build an employment-ready public health workforce in Saint Lucia and beyond.
  • FHTS and Commonwealth University College of Medicine (CUCOM), Commonwealth University St. Lucia signed MOU to develop a collaborative academic ecosystem supporting innovation, research, and physician leadership, provide multidisciplinary population health training to undergraduate medical students, and strengthen community engagement through outreach and service-learning initiatives in Saint Lucia and beyond.
  • Launch of the “Public Health in Action” curriculum and establishment of “Public Health Clubs” in schools across Kolhapur, Maharashtra, to nurture health-conscious and socially responsible students.
  • Establishment of FHTS SMAART Center at Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Base Hospital, Srinagar, Uttarakhand, and Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Srinagar, Uttarakhand.
  • Establishment of fourth SMAART center in Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Haryana
  • FHTS in collaboration with ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research organized a three day workshop titled “Population Health Research and Practice” with 25 ICMR Scientists that are part of the first cohort in India who are pursuing their PhD in Medical Research supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
  • Dr. Joshi, Founder FHTS Co-chaired a Panel Discussion at World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2025
  • Provisional Certificate for Institutional Human Ethics Committee
  • MoU Signed: FHTS and the School of Public Health, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu have entered into a partnership effective October 1, 2025
    MoU Signed: FHTS and the School of Public Health, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu have entered into a partnership effective October 1, 2025

  • MoU Signed: FHTS and Malla Reddy Vishwavidyapeeth, Deemed to be University, Hyderabad have entered into a partnership effective October 14, 2025, to collaborate on research, academics, and capacity-building initiatives in public health.
    MoU Signed: FHTS and Malla Reddy Vishwavidyapeeth, Deemed to be University, Hyderabad have entered into a partnership effective October 14, 2025, to collaborate on research, academics, and capacity-building initiatives in public health.

  • Signing of MoU with Government Doon Medical College, Uttarakhand
  • Launch of initiative Public Health Ki Rasoi that aims to empower individuals using video multimedia to make informed dietary choices by blending nutrition science with cultural and regional practices
  • Launch of initiative Swasthya Pahal in village Semog, Uttarakhand
  • Employment opportunity provided to two women from village Semog under RISE Initiative
  • Launch of initiative Ujjwala in village Semog, Uttarakhand supporting education, employment, empowerment of children and adults living in under resourced and geographically inaccessible settings towards creating a healthy and a resilient ecosystem for sustained development
  • Signing of MoU with KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Karnataka
  • Signing of MoU with Society of Hospital Administrators, Uttarakhand
  • Seventh ICMR study grant: Evaluating the Impact of Digital Intervention versus WHO PEN Approach in Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control in Resource-Limited Settings: A Quasi-Experimental Study
  • Launch of initiative HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) in village Semog, Uttarakhand for providing health counselling to the residents through SMS
  • Launch of initiative Public Health Ki Rasoi in village Semog, Uttarakhand
    Launch of initiative Public Health Ki Rasoi in village Semog, Uttarakhand

  • Signing of MoU with Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences & Research, Haryana
  • Inaugural batch of Dental students from Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Haryana for population health research program
  • Start of a multicentric study for designing and pilot testing a digital health intervention grounded in the Health Belief Model to create meaningful behavioral change and support college students’ well-being.
  • Dr. Joshi at village Semog, for community needs assessment
  • Developed India’s first training program in Health and Nutrition Informatics.
  • Developed India’s first network of collaborative researchers group IDEAS-CRG.
  • Sangyan Kiosk at PMCHRI (Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute), Tamil Nadu
  • Certified as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) part of the Ministry of Science and Technology
  • Sixth ICMR grant: Digital Health Intervention to enhance self-management of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) among adults living in urban poor settings
  • Launch of initiative HEAL that aims to enhance self management of Non-communicable diseases through multilingual SMS delivery.
  • Signing of MoU with Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu
  • Establishment of third SMAART center at Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu
  • Initiated India’s first 4 years Physician and Nursing Researcher Program in India for undergraduate medical and nursing students in collaboration with Panimalar Medical College and Research Institute.
  • Inaugural SMAART IMPaCT Award
  • Launch of initiative CAMP, first of its kind, public health Career And Mentorship Program aiming to provide students an opportunity to explore career pathways in the field of public health.
  • Signing of MoU with St Ann’s College for Women, Telangana
    Signing of MoU with St Ann’s College for Women, Telangana

  • Fifth ICMR Study: A Diagnostic Decision Support Tool for early detection and management of COVID-19 infection
  • Introduced the field of Nutrition Informatics in India and developed India’s first Nutrition Informatics platform SHINE.
  • Launch of first cohort of PhD in Population Health Informatics, first of its kind globally
  • Implementation of Swasthya Pahal among the police personnel of Uttarakhand
  • Launch of SMAART Rapid Tracker, an interactive policy informatics platform tracking spread of COVID-19 outbreak and policy actions globally.
  • Program INSPIRE evolved to v-INSPIRE with a new approach for more impact
  • First cohort under the program v-INSPIRE enrolled
  • Launch of initiative COPHI (Community Of Population Health Informatics), a collaborative platform for knowledge exchange
  • Launch of Initiative Sangyan: multilingual Interactive Decision making enabler through Educational Audios (IDEA) platform that aims to connect community to the evidence based information that can enhance the good health and well-being
  • Collaboaration Discussions with the officials from the state of Uttarakhand
  • Signing of MoU with DIT Universty for PhD in Population Health Informatics
  • Establisment of second SMAART Center at Government Doon Medical College, Uttarakhand
  • Launch of RISE Initiative that aims to empower individuals aspiring to make the world a better place through research, innovation, skills and entrepreneurship
  • Digital Commonwealth Award for SMAART Health Kiosk for Health for All Initiative
  • Fourth ICMR study grant: “A community-based pragmatic, controlled trial for prevention and reduction of oral diseases among children at the anganwadi centres located in peri-urban areas of Chandigarh and rural parts of Cuttack, Orissa.”
  • Second ICMR Study: Design and Evaluation of a Personalized Human Centred Dietary Decision Support System among diabetics.
  • Third ICMR study grant: Design, develop, implement and evaluate an internet enabled surveillance platform of an Integrated Road Traffic Injuries Surveillance-India (IRIS-India): Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand
  • Best Poster Presentation award at IPHA Conference, Jodhpur
  • Initiation of a Research Project: Mapping Sustainable Development Goals in Urban slum settings
  • Developed SMAART Urban Slum Dashboard
    Developed SMAART Urban Slum Dashboard

  • First ICMR grant: School based surveillance of acute Pharyngitis and Rheumatic Fever, RHD among school children using mobile phone based reporting system; Prospective randomized controlled cluster intervention trial.
  • First student enrolled in INSPIRE, a program that prepares students with necessary 21st century skills for job readiness with an experiential learning approach
  • ICMR-CRME Award for Oral paper presentation: Brainstorming Conference on Dengue Scenario in India: Disease burden, surveillance and control, Madurai
    ICMR-CRME Award for Oral paper presentation: Brainstorming Conference on Dengue Scenario in India: Disease burden, surveillance and control, Madurai

  • Initiation of a Research Project: Water and Sanitation Hygiene Knowledge Attitude Practice in urban slum settings
  • Launch of first cohort of Certificate in Operational Research in Population Health with Saveetha Medical College, Tamil Nadu for 30 medical students
    Launch of first cohort of Certificate in Operational Research in Population Health with Saveetha Medical College, Tamil Nadu for 30 medical students

  • Screened first beneficiary in Swasthya Pahal, a digital intervention for self management of NCDs utilizing SMAART informatics framework
    Screened first beneficiary in Swasthya Pahal, a digital intervention for self management of NCDs utilizing SMAART informatics framework

  • Inception of FHTS with the establishment of first SMAART Center in Delhi
    Inception of FHTS with the establishment of first SMAART Center in Delhi