University of Hyderabad (UoH) and ACCESS Health International (AHI), India country office, entered into a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) towards capacity building within study programs across schools, collaborative research projects and internships, academics and research in actuarial sciences, digital initiatives, and big data analytics in the area of healthcare.
UoH Vice-Chancellor B.J. Rao welcomed the collaboration and encouraged the parties to concentrate on one or two tangible deliverables that will have high impact and be sustainable in future. He was particularly keen on digitising health data efforts and using it to drive policy and program efforts.
AHI regional director N. Krishna Reddy said the advisory group works towards strengthening health systems and is closely involved in the national health policies, health finance and economics, health insurance, quality of care, and service delivery models, including the newer digital health initiatives.
