Delhi Policy and Hospital Systems Lens

This program situates mental health within national policy architecture and large-scale hospital systems. Students explore the National Mental Health Programme and District Mental Health Programme frameworks, safeguarding standards, tele-mental health scale, and community access challenges across Delhi and the NCR region.

The design connects macro policy structures with lived implementation realities. Students examine how national strategy becomes hospital workflow, district outreach, referral chains, and digital infrastructure. The program emphasizes ethical observational practice, institutional literacy, and systems mapping.

Students will:

Interpret NMHP and DMHP policy architecture, including financing, governance layers, and service integration.
Analyze patient pathways from primary consultation to tertiary referral within urban systems.
Examine stigma, affordability, and urban inequality as structural determinants of access.
Evaluate tele-mental health scale models and digital access infrastructure.
Compare biomedical, psychosocial, and community-based mental health interventions using evidence-aligned language.
Ask: Where do policy ambition and implementation capacity diverge in large metropolitan systems?
Produce a structured policy and systems analysis memo supported by ecosystem mapping.

Public Health

Neuroscience

Health Systems Management

Policy Studies

Social Work

Medical Humanities

Sociology

Anthropology

Bioethics

Pre-med Observational

Delhi

National Capital Region

Government and Private Hospital Systems

District Mental Health Programme Nodes

Community Health Organizations

Tele Mental Health Infrastructure Interfaces

Day	Location	Academic Focus & Activities	Learning Emphasis
1	Delhi	Arrival; orientation; introduction to mental health as a systems issue	Establish shared ethics and safeguarding standards
2	Delhi	Seminar: NMHP and DMHP architecture; financing and governance layers	Building national policy literacy
3	Delhi	Ethics workshop on confidentiality, consent, observational boundaries	Practicing professional standards
4–5	Delhi	Hospital and clinic observational blocks across public and private settings	Understanding service delivery constraints
6	Delhi NCR	District level service pathway mapping; community partner session on stigma and access	Analyzing pathways to care
7	Delhi	Workforce and training systems discussion; human resource constraints	Examining capacity challenges
8	Delhi	Tele mental health systems including Tele MANAS; digital referral pathways	Understanding scale and accessibility
9	Delhi	Integrative medicine and complementary practices discussion using WHO aligned evidence framing	Evidence based critique and safety framing
10	Delhi	Mental health data systems and outcome indicators lab	Linking metrics to policy design
11	Delhi	Ecosystem mapping workshop; stakeholder and referral chain diagramming	Visualizing system interdependencies
12	Delhi	Policy memo drafting and institutional gap analysis	Translating observation into structured analysis
13	Delhi	Departure	Closure