Institute of Public Health ( IPH) and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) will collaborate each other in Educational and Research activities and to accommodate each others’ faculty members as well as the students to benefit from the Labs for research work besides starting joint educational and training programs for capacity building of the teachers.
For this purpose, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Thursday in the premises of LUMS. IPH Board of Management (BoM) Chairman Khalid Maqbool and LUMS Acting Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Sabih Anwer signed the documents, whereas, IPH Dean Prof Dr Zarfishan Tahir and Associate Professor Dr Shaper Mirza also signed the MoU as witnesses.
On this occasion, Khalid Maqbool was of the view that our medical institutions have produced lot of highly qualified and world class clinicians and our main focus remained on clinical side but unfortunately the public health sector and Disease Prevention Programme was not given sufficient importance.
He said that a vibrant and strong disease prevention and control system is required to meet the challenges of public health sector to build a healthy society. Khalid Maqbool further said that IPH has realized its role and started collaborated efforts with the help and assistance of National as well as international organizations and educational institutions and MoU between IPH and LUMS would further boost these activities.
Dr Zarfishan Tahir said that through this MoU both the institutions will extend cooperation in Research and educational activities besides launching of new programs in various fields of public health. She said that exchange of faculty members and students’ delegations would also take place to get benefit from Lab and other facilities for research purposes.
Acting VC Prof Dr Sabih Anwer said that the University is ready to offer full cooperation in research and educational activities and to initiate new academic, capacity building programs in collaboration with IPH for strengthening the Public Health Sector.
He said that Inter- professional training, research on diseases and establishing database of different diseases would help control epidemics and strengthen the prevention of diseases control in Punjab.
