India Research Center
The India Research Center, based in Mumbai, serves as a hub for Harvard Chan School’s research projects, educational programs, and knowledge translation and communication work across India.
Peninsula Corporate Park,
Lower Parel, Mumbai
India
What We Do
For more than a century, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has advanced public health through research, education, and leadership. Building on this legacy, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India Research Center (IRC) has, over the past decade, developed trusted partnerships across India that bring together Harvard’s academic excellence with India’s scientific talent, contextual knowledge, innovation, and capacity for large scale implementation.
Established in 2017, the IRC, an office of Harvard Global Research Support Centre India, is the first global center of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and serves as a platform for collaborative research, capacity building, and knowledge translation and communication. The Center strengthens the School’s existing partnerships while establishing new collaborations across government, academia, civil society, development organizations, and the private sector, and supports interdisciplinary solutions to India’s most pressing public health challenges.
Through research, capacity building, and innovation, the IRC works to generate evidence, strengthen institutions, and support evidence informed policy and practice to improve health and well being in India.
Center by the numbers
Vision
To improve health and well-being across India by translating scientific knowledge, innovation, leadership, and partnerships into action at scale.
Mission
To advance public health through enduring partnerships between Harvard and India that generate and apply knowledge, develop leaders, strengthen institutions, foster innovation, and translate evidence into policies and practices that improve lives.
A glimpse into the people and ideas that shape our work
