About
Foundation for Innovations in Health
Foundation for Innovations in Health (FIH) is committed to addressing health and income inequities. At FIH, we believe that sustainable change lies at the intersection of healthcare access and livelihood generation. By leveraging the democratisation of frugal healthtech innovations, we design and deploy scalable, cost-effective solutions that bring quality healthcare, including mental health and mitigation of climate change impacts, closer to underserved populations while creating meaningful employment opportunities.
What sets us apart
Large scale formal sector employment creation
Agency to community health workers, permanent community capacity creation, and driving sustainability
Data-driven approach, integrity & regularity
Democratization and diffusion of Frugal health-tech
Disruption of access barriers – culture, cost, home-based
Value addition through institutional participation – IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, NIT Meghalaya
Our Foundation
Established in 2013 by and his colleagues, FIH is guided by a strong leadership vision, scientific rigour, citizen-centricity and social anthropological mooring. The organisation is mentored by Prof. Amitabha Ghosh, Emeritus Scientist at the Indian National Science Academy and Former Director of IIT Kharagpur.
Mentored by internationally acclaimed pioneers and inspiring personalities, governed by a diverse group of eminent professionals, and driven by domain experts, FIH operates with a unified purpose:
“Health for a Billion”
Through innovation, collaboration, and impact-driven execution, FIH continues to redefine how healthcare and skilling can work together to transform lives at scale.
Our
Vision.
We will address income and health inequity that is adversely affecting the underserved population.
Our
Mission.
We will achieve this through building an integrated 3T model - Training & education of rural youth, Task- shifting from doctors, Technologies that are frugal and deep-science driven.