About
Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM), is a national organization with its 4000+ member network all over India and has its members in medical colleges and government and non-government agencies focusing on community health. IAPSM leadership, particularly, Prof. Ratan Srivastava (ex-President, IAPSM) and Prof. AM Kadri (General Secretary, IAPSM) planned to set up a National Working Group exclusively dedicated to Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) under the ambit of IAPSM.
The objectives of the MIYCN-IAPSM National Working group are:
1. To promote a proactive engagement of the Community Medicine specialists to strengthen and implement the concept of MIYCN
2. To facilitate capacity building of the public and private healthcare providers in implementing the integration of MIYCN in health care and health research
3. To support the implementation of pre-service training of MIYCN among the health professional students
4. Advocacy with stakeholders to improve MIYCN in the country
This group was launched in the plenary session at IAPSM National conference of 2018 in Maharashtra, with a core group of eleven IAPSM members.
The objectives of the MIYCN-IAPSM National Working group are:
1. To promote a proactive engagement of the Community Medicine specialists to strengthen and implement the concept of MIYCN
2. To facilitate capacity building of the public and private healthcare providers in implementing the integration of MIYCN in health care and health research
3. To support the implementation of pre-service training of MIYCN among the health professional students
4. Advocacy with stakeholders to improve MIYCN in the country
This group was launched in the plenary session at IAPSM National conference of 2018 in Maharashtra, with a core group of eleven IAPSM members.