Few years, after the inspiring Alma Ata Declaration that proposed the goal of Health for All by 2000AD, the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research and the Indian Council of Medical Research set up a joint study group to review the health care systems in the country and recommend...
ARE YOU A ‘TAP TURNER OFF’ ?
posted by Ravi Narayan
Forty year ago, as a young postgraduate student of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1973, I listened to a guest lecture on ‘ The future directions in Research’. The speaker, Prof. Denis Burkitt (of Burkitt Lymphoma fame) had just become head of the Medical Research Council in UK, after some path breaking research on ‘Fibre in the diet’. The core of his lecture was an important question he posed to all us youngsters, as we began our new vocations. Are you a Floor Mopper or a Tap turner off – he asked. I was 25 and a young graduate from St. John’s Medical College, challenged to a new vocation in...