IIHMR University is a leading knowledge institution of the country engaged in teaching, research and training in the domains of public health, health and hospital administration, pharmaceutical management and development management. Over the past 37 years, IIHMR University has carved a niche for itself among management institutions, both in India and abroad. The institute is the World Health Organization's Collaborating Centre for strengthening Health Systems based on Primary Care and is recognized as an ‘Institute of Excellence' by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.The University offers MBA, MPH (in collaboration with JHU) and doctoral programs, executive education, research and consultancy in the fields of hospital management, health management, pharmaceutical management, development management, and a variety of fields related to the health sector. The institution has already conducted more than 800 research projects and studies in the core areas of public health, Health and Hospital Management, Pharmaceutical Management, Health Economics and Finance, Population and Reproductive Health, Development Management, Institutional Networking and capacity building in India and wider South-East Asian Region. Now stepping in the fourth decade, as we go global, we strive to generate knowledge to help develop effective health, social and public systems and socially relevant health technologies. The genesis of IIHMR owes to the pressing need during 1980's to improve the health systems in India. For a country as large and complex as India, the bottlenecks impeding effective healthcare delivery were aplenty. Although the health systems were characterized by severe deficiencies in physical and human resources which continues to be a major issue even today, the bigger problem lay in the poor management of healthcare systems. It was established in 1984 as Indian Institute of Health Management and Research (IIHMR).