Over the past two decades, education at IPH Bengaluru has grown from research and policy engagement into a recognised area of expertise in public health, both in India and internationally. With over 1,700 alumni from online and offline courses and 16 PhD scholars registered across different institutes, IPH’s academic programs reflect both depth and global reach.

IPH’s commitment to bridging evidence into policy remains at the core of the school’s work, most notably through the nationally recognised Bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy (EPHP) Conference.

The School of Advanced Studies will provide these key activities with a critical platform and space within IPH Bengaluru to bring much needed focus to the expertise that is housed within the centres while building a collaboration with like-minded organisations and individuals via its teaching and engaging mandates. 

With the collaboration with the TT Narasimhan family, IPH Bengaluru is memorialising his legacy by proposing that the School of Advanced Studies adopt his name and vision for building this new unit within IPH Bengaluru. 

The T.T.Narasimhan School of Advanced Studies at IPH Bengaluru (TTN SoAS at IPH) represents a bold evolution of two decades of public health education and practice. It is shaped by critical self-reflection, global and local partnerships, and a move beyond traditional academic models.

T.T. Narasimhan is the founder-chairman of the TTK Group. He was only 19 years old when he took over the reins of T.T. Krishnamachari & Company in 1940. But TTN was a visionary. He realized Indian companies should not just be distributing consumer products – mostly British brands, at that time – but must also be manufacturing them.

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