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The ITM Group of Institutions is a group of educational institutions in India, headquartered from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, which is managed by the ITM Trust. It was founded in 1991 by founder and chairman Dr P. V. Ramana. [1] Institutions established by the group include two universities, ITM University, Raipur and ITM Vocational University.
ITM has a strong reputation in biomedical, clinical and public health research, advanced education, travel medicine and care for HIV and sexually-transmitted diseases as well as capacity-building in developing countries. Peter Piot and his colleagues at the institute were the first to demonstrate that AIDS was a tropical African disease.
Health systems science (HSS) is a foundational platform and framework for the study and understanding of how care is delivered, how health professionals work together to deliver that care, and how the health system can improve patient care and health care delivery. [1]
PLoS Medicine commissioned three articles on the state-of-the-art in HPSR authored by a diverse group of global health academics. These articles critically examined the status of HPSR, current challenges and mapped the need to build capacity in HPSR and support local policy development and health systems strengthening, especially in LMICs. [5]
The university's curricula show that the didactic programs as well as the research activities focus on the pathologies at the root of the most common health issues in the Global South such as Malaria, Hiv/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Neglected Tropical Diseases, as well as the specific requirements for physicians and health professionals operating in war zones or natural disaster areas.
This evolved into the Master's in Systems Management. The systems curriculum was expanded in 1970 as the need for systems management as applied to many disciplines, including management, became clear. In 1977-1978 the Master's of Science in Industrial Hygiene and Master's of Science in Occupational Health were implemented.
The NorthCap University (abbreviated as NCU; formerly ITM University) is an Indian private university situated in Sector 23-A, Gurgaon, Haryana. Formerly it was under Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. [2] The Institute gained the status of private university in the Academic Year 2009–10, and was renamed ITM University.(*needs verification*)
The university's name was changed to Finch University of Health Sciences in 1993, and in 2004 to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. [5] The university acquired the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine (coincidentally also founded in 1912) in 2001 and opened a College of Pharmacy in 2011.