Covaxin may provide better defence against Omicron: Top health expertK Srinath Reddy called for laboratory and clinical tests to understand how the Omicron variant, which has the highest spike protein mutatio...
03 Dec, 2021, 07.38 PM IST
Stroke caused 7 lakh deaths in India in 2019: StudyThe paper is a collaborative effort between the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Instit...
15 Jul, 2021, 10.46 AM IST
Coronavirus outbreak likely to peak in late April: PHFI PresidentIndia’s coronavirus outbreak may peak in late April, said K Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Reddy...
14 Apr, 2020, 08.17 AM IST
Bill Gates meets Rajnath to discuss initiatives of American philanthropies in IndiaThe home minister also suggested that the foundation should concentrate on developing villages and make them "model villages" so that the l...
16 Nov, 2017, 09.51 PM IST
Whether polio or meningitis, India has shown way in health innovation: Melinda Gates, Gates Foundation"One of the fantastic things I see in India are self-help groups led by women. They're explaining, culturally, to young women why things li...
13 Sep, 2017, 11.23 AM IST
MHA order revoking license of PHFI lists 7 'undesirable activities'The seven "undesirable activities" include declaring only six of its 151 bank accounts and wrongful declaration of Rs 43 crore received for...
21 Apr, 2017, 12.48 PM IST
Centre grills NGO linked with Gates FoundationThe Centre has asked the Public Health Foundation of India, which lists Gates Foundation as one of its donors, for more details on the util...
20 Apr, 2017, 01.13 AM IST
Centre shuts health mission gate on Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationNTAGI is crucial to India’s Universal Immunization Programme) — the nationwide rollout of the pentavalent vaccine and introduction of vacci...
09 Feb, 2017, 06.05 PM IST
Investment in public health yields great returns: Narayana MurthyInvestment in public health produces enormous returns in the long term, Infosys Founder and PHFI's Leadership Council Chairman N R Narayana...
03 Feb, 2015, 06.54 PM IST
Controversial vaccine studies: Why is Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation under fire from critics in India?Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded two entities that have played a key role in the immunization programme and are both under fire f...
31 Aug, 2014, 03.47 PM IST
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: GAVI & PHFI help create incentives for pharma cos to make low-cost vaccinesThe project used vaccines that are licensed in India and that have been administered safely around the world tens of millions of times, pre...
31 Aug, 2014, 04.30 AM IST
10 per cent hike on tobacco products to reduce consumption: Public Health Foundation of IndiaThe study highlighted that a 10 per cent increase in bidi prices will lead to almost 5 per cent decrease in consumption.
06 Jun, 2014, 03.28 PM IST
Government to tax tobacco more to reduce consumptionUnion health minister Harsh Vardhan is for levying increased taxes on tobacco and tobacco-related products to discourage its consumption.
30 May, 2014, 12.40 PM IST
80% of medicines not covered by price control orderThe much-awaited drug price control order (DPCO) 2013, meant to control the price of medicines does not cover over 80% of the medicines in ...
01 Dec, 2013, 11.48 AM IST
- Sanofi-led new project on diabetes targets `KiDS'
To create awareness about diabetes among children in the country, global healthcare leader Sanofi today joined hands with two other bodies ...
30 Sep, 2013, 09.43 PM IST
- Public Health Foundation of India comes under the RTI Act: CIC
PHFI, an autonomous public private partnership project, comes under the ambit of the RTI Act as it is substantial financed by the govt.
15 Feb, 2012, 03.19 PM IST
- Rajat Gupta resigns from PHFI
Rajat Gupta, the former McKinsey & Co chief accused of insider trading in the US, has resigned from the board of Public Health Foundation o...
17 Mar, 2011, 11.59 AM IST