[Important: CoE-AH will be admitting PhD students in Autumn, 2024 for translational research in affordable healthcare domain where the areas are: biomedical systems / instrumentation / signal & image processing / machine learning and embedded systems, assistive technology, rehabilitations, digital pathology etc. Option to apply for PhD is available at institute portal.] ***

Centre of Excellence in Affordable Healthcare (CoE-AH) is a new CoE at IIT Kharagpur which came up in March, 2023. The aim of the CoE is to make healthcare accessible, available and efficient. It provides an interdisciplinary platform to pull the expertize and resources and work for a common goal. The steering committee of the CoE consists of following members.

1. Dr. Pranab Kumar Dutta, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engg., Dean, Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Biotech & Biosc. Ex-Head, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and School of Medical Science & Technology

2. Dr. Cheruvu Siva Kumar, Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; Ex-Head, Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship

3. Dr. Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Dept. of Electronics & ECE; Abdul Kalam Tech. Innovation Fellow

4. Dr. Pabitra Mitra, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering; Ex-Head, Centre for Computational and Data Sciences

5. Dr. Manjunatha Mahadevappa, Professor, School of Medical Science & Technology, Prof.-in-Charge, Biomedical Instrumentation Lab.

6. Dr. Soumen Das, Professor & Head, School of Medical Science & Technology; Dean, Dr. B. C. Roy Multi-Speciality Medical Research Centre; Vice-Chairperson, CoE in Affordable Healthcare

7. Dr. Goutam Saha, Professor, Dept. of Electronics & ECE; Chairperson, CoE in Affordable Healthcare; Nodal Coordinator, ICMR CLiMB Biodesign Program; VSNL Chair Professor, Ex-Dean, R G School of Intellectual Property Law; Ex-Coordinator, IMPRINT-India Healthcare Domain

Besides Core faculty, CoE-AH has the service of associated faculty from different academic units. To spearhead its activitites, four workgroups have been formed namely, Infrastructure workgroup, Technology Bank workgroup, Hospital Trial / Validation Study workgroup, Tech. Transfer workgroup.

IIT Kharagpur has been in the forefront of Healthcare R & D for many decades now in which, faculty members from many academic units are contributing in different ways. IIT Kharagpur was the coordinating institute of Healthcare domain for the National level initiative IMPRINT when it was launched by the Honourable Prime Minister from the Rashtrapati Bhavan in 2015. Before that, the institute launched the mega initiative, Signals and Systems for Life Sciences which was first of its kind in this part, to bring medical domain and engineering/science domain experts together. The new faculty of B C Roy Multispecialty Medical Research Centre at IIT Kharagpur bring these two domains even closer. Centre of Excellence in Affordable Healthcare is an affirmative action to meet a long standing aspiration of this institute to make humble contribution towards reducing the burden in healthcare sector through collective effort. We look forward to working together with our collaborators and translational partners to meet the unmet need in this sector.