Dr. Rita Thapa, advisor of NPHF delivered lecture on Changing Public Health Paradigm: Improving Maternal Child Health and Family planning.”
Nepal Public Health Foundation Has been organizing public health lecture as its core activity every year inviting eminent persons 0n 30th June to foster collective action of people around common agendas of public health.In 2014 Dr. Rita Thapa advisorof NPHF and also the first Nepali Woman Program Director at WHO Regional Office of South-East Asia, delivered lecture on “Changing Public Health Paradigm: Improving MCH-FP- Nepal”.
The entire lecture focused on fascinating journey through the challenging time in history of public health development in Nepal. Dr. Thapa tried to explain how changes in public health paradigm occurred in Nepal and how these key changes have led to establishing nation wide Phc network that reaches the unreached in every ward with basic FP-MCH care service, among others.