CHRD Society For Applied Studies

The Centre for Health Research and Development (CHRD), New Delhi is the regional center of the Society for Applied Studies (SAS), Kolkata. It is a not-for-profit research organization registered under the Societies Registration Act. Its entire functioning is typical of any research institute which does research as a full-time preoccupation, disseminates its findings in the best journals in the field, and contributes to policy, based on research evidence. The Kolkata group is focussed on hospital-based case management studies of childhood illness and on establishing neonatal services in district hospitals throughout the country. The Centre for Health Research and Development (CHRD) in Delhi specializes in community-based research, assessment and action, and product evaluation. CHRD interacts with other agencies to disseminate the knowledge it generates, helps visualize challenges in scale-up, builds consensus on policies and implementation strategies, and contributes with others to building skills in community research and action and improving the delivery of child health programs. CHRD has long term collaboration with several national and international institutions.