Programmes & Schemes

BIRAC-Lords Education and Health Society (LEHS), through Its WISH Initiative: Scaling the Innovations

BIRAC partnered with WISH (Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare) Foundation for leveraging the network and engage the SCALE programme of WISH to validate the innovations in primary healthcare centres through state governments. The main objectives of this partnership include: 1. Identify and assess need based, high potential innovations and demonstrate their technical worthiness for scale up 2. Conduct field test beds for demonstration of innovations within public health service delivery system 3. Build effective partnerships to identify and nurture innovations 4. Facilitate introduction and connect of innovators with public procurement initiatives 5. Build an innovation ecosystem to accelerate scale-up of innovations

Ministry / Department: Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt of India

Focus Area: Medical Science

Target Audience: Healthcare Centres

Funding Agency: Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)

Purpose: Innovations, Research

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