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In the first global rankings for schools of public health, the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) has secured an impressive second place, surpassing Harvard.

1: Dimension-Significance of Public Health in today’s times

• Development & security: Public health is pivotal to national development and global security. The ranking reflect the increasing importance of public health research in non-high-income countries.
• Contributes to economic and social development: Public health is important today because it addresses the health challenges and opportunities that affect the well-being of people and societies.
• Empowerment: Not only it responds to emerging and global health threats, it empowers individuals and communities.

2: Dimension- Role of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

• Protecting the system: PHFI has established six institutes in different regions of India to promote multidisciplinary education and research which can inform and assist multi-sectoral policies and programmes for protecting people’s health.
• Treating relevancy: It has aimed to be locally relevant, nationally impactful, and globally respected.
• More focus on quality: PHFI has ranked exceptionally well not because of the ‘productivity’ criterion but thanks to the ‘quality’ criterion, which are all at the maximum.