Dialogues on Primary Healthcare – Episode 02

What makes a Provider? Unpacking the Socio-cultural environments of primary healthcare doctors and nurses

An initiative by the Centre for Primary Healthcare @BHS and the Centre for Healthcare @IIMU

Dialogues on primary healthcare is a series of conversations, aimed to generate an evidence and experience informed discourse on practice and policy of primary healthcare in India. While there is a reasonable evidence that health systems founded on strong primary healthcare are effective, resilient and cost-effective, there is not adequate understanding on how to design and build such systems.

The series will invite speakers who have deep experience of practicing, researching or policymaking on primary healthcare, and its different aspects. They will share evidence and insights from their own research and practice and discuss their implications on larger primary healthcare ecosystem in India.

Episode 2: What makes a Provider? Unpacking the Socio-cultural environments of primary healthcare doctors and nurses

Date: May 10, 2024

Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.

Primary healthcare providers serve as the cornerstone of any public healthcare system. This team comprises professionals such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, community health workers, lab technicians, among others, all working synergistically to address the multifaceted needs of the patients and provide comprehensive primary healthcare services to the community. However, several factors influence the functioning of a primary healthcare unit.

In this episode, drawing up on their extensive research, Dr Priya Das and Prof Radhika Gore will delve into the socio-cultural, political, and bureaucratic dynamics that affects the providers within a primary healthcare.

Speakers:

  • Dr Priya Das worked as a senior research and gender specialist at the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) Asia Regional Office (ARO). She is currently serving as Principal Consultant for Gender and Health and is designated as the Gender Focal Point for Oxford Policy Management (OPM) since 2018. Her work within OPM has involved ethnographic research in health facilities, innovative methodologies to understand time use by ANMs (Auxiliary Nurse Midwives), primary research in women’s leadership in health and gender and health project to integrate gender responsiveness in health system strengthening initiatives.
  • Prof Radhika Gore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and is Director of Research at the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone (FHC). Her research focuses on the social and organizational factors that affect health care service delivery and clinic-community relations.

Moderators:

  • Dr Sanjana Mohan is the co-Founder and Director (Nutrition) at Basic Healthcare Services. She holds MBBS and an MD in Paediatrics from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and a diploma in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
  • Prof Niranjan Janardhanan is a faculty in Management Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He conducts research in Organisational Behaviour, with a focus on identities and team coordination in organisations, and in novel and unstructured contexts.