Wednesday, May 04^th 2022: Lloyd Institute of Management and Technology (Pharm), Greater Noida organized an Expert Talk on “Avenues in Public Health” by Dr. Jyoti Sharma.  The event was coordinated by Dr Kumud Madan. Dr. Jyoti Sharma is a fellow of the future faculty program of Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). She highlighted that Public Health is a wise investment that helps people to save money, enjoy good health and live longer. PHFI is an organization in collaboration with the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) under which various types of e-Post Graduate Programs (Public Health Nutrition, Epidemiology, Health Promotion, and Public Health Services Management etc.) and e- Courses (Research Methodology, Tobacco control, Clinical Research Methods, and Research ethics, etc.) are available. She stated that Clinical Research involves epidemiological studies, patient-oriented research, behavioral science, health service research, clinical trials and translational research. She also briefed about the Health Informatics. It has tremendous promise in improving the efficiency, Cost-effectiveness, quality, and safety of health care service systems.

The courses offered by PHFI have many unique features like multidisciplinary faculty, self-paced learning, virtual classrooms etc.  She had introduced to different types of careers associated with clinical research in the pharma industry. One can apply for a project manager, data manager, data analyst, scientist/principal investigator, research coordinator and quality control monitor etc. She vividly told all the qualifications required for the particular career options. At last, she summarized her words by guiding about different types of scholarships available for meritorious students. The guest was felicitated in the end by Dr. Shilpa Pahwa, H.O.D. Lloyd