Our Public Health grants enable applicants and organizations to develop and facilitate systemic changes in India’s public health system; through academic research, investigative reporting, capacity building or execution.

We endeavor to further advances in India’s public health landscape, and pave the way for a better regulated health care ecosystem.

Grant Objective
Grant Objective

The objective behind our grant is to spread awareness about India’s public health issues, build capacity, and influence policy by bringing these issues into the mainstream narrative.

India’s public healthcare system constantly fails the medical needs of its poor and marginalized communities. It is marked by wide disparities in management, accountability, ethics, budgetary allocations, and resources. These obstacles can be attributed to fundamental constraints, such as a shortfall in infrastructure, medical facilities, trained professionals, and allied health services.

Due to a lack of awareness, there exists an immense reliance on alternative, traditional forms of medicine, often propagated by practitioners or individuals without professional qualifications.

We believe that there is a deep-rooted need for awareness, information, accessibility, and capacity building to address these gaps.

Types of Grants

One of our current areas of interest is to build capacity for journalism in healthcare. Toward that end, we solicit grants annually for investigative reporting in Public Health. We exercise no editorial control over the content of the deliverables. Grantees can report in regional languages or English, and are expected to publish their work at a reputable media organization. For more information, please read about the 2019 Investigative Reporting in Public Health Grants.

We award grants for academic research and scholarship in specific focus areas of interest.

We encourage projects that explore issues around regulatory reform and access to primary healthcare services delivery.

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We offer Public Health grants for a duration of six months. For further information, please send a request for information to grants.administrator@thakur-foundation.org.

Thakur Foundation announces a grant to the Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy, Indian Law Society, Pune to establish a repository of information to support the Central and State Governments in the implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, India Mental Health Policy, 2014, Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and other state-led policy initiatives such as the District Mental Health Program to be named India Mental Health Observatory (IMHO).

IMHO will develop an institutional mechanism to collaborate with a range of stakeholders including policymakers, mental health professionals and civil society to collect and collate data, research and metrics on mental health services at the national, state and district level with the goal of promoting evidence-based policymaking for bridging systemic gaps in the provision of mental health services and advancing mental health in India.