The national capital will have public health university and an Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) to provide a trained health workforce, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said after donating 51 acres of land for the two institutes on Friday. The institutes will be built by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a public-private partnership between the central government, the Delhi government and private players – which is the brainchild of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The university, to come up in southwest Delhi, will be a constituent unit of the network of institutes being established by the PHFI. This campus will be named 'Swasthya Niketan', and the university will link several institutes of public health which the foundation proposes to establish in various regions of India.
