The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Saturday launched a monthly webinar series on best practices under the National Health Mission (NHM) to promote innovation, facilitate knowledge sharing among States and Union Territories, and strengthen public health systems across the country.
Launched on the occasion of World Population Day 2026, the initiative is designed as a year-round platform for documenting, sharing and replicating successful healthcare innovations. It aims to enable States and UTs to exchange implementation experiences and adopt scalable, evidence-based practices to improve healthcare delivery.
The inaugural session, attended by more than 500 officials from the national, State and district levels, was chaired by Additional Secretary and Mission Director (NHM), Aradhana Patnaik, who emphasised that innovation is central to building responsive and resilient public health systems.
She described the webinar series as an institutional mechanism to identify, document and disseminate innovative practices emerging from States and UTs so that successful models developed in one region can be replicated across the country.
Patnaik encouraged States and UTs to present innovative solutions that go beyond existing programme frameworks and address emerging public health challenges through locally developed approaches. She also acknowledged that many effective innovations remain undocumented because field teams are primarily focused on programme implementation.
To address this gap, she said the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) would provide technical support for documenting and showcasing such initiatives, thereby expanding the reach of the National Summit on Good and Replicable Innovative Practices. She urged all States and UTs to actively participate in the webinar series to foster continuous learning and innovation-driven programme implementation.
The inaugural webinar focused on the theme “Anemia, Child and Adolescent Health” and featured presentations on successful interventions from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
Jharkhand showcased the Anemia Mukt Bharat T4 App along with its Integrated Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC) and Home-Based Young Child Care (HBYC) home visit initiative. Chhattisgarh presented Chirayu Day under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), while Madhya Pradesh highlighted its initiative to address adolescent obesity.
The Ministry said these interventions have demonstrated measurable impact in addressing local public health challenges and have emerged as promising, replicable models that align with national health programmes.
According to the Ministry, the monthly webinar series marks the beginning of a sustained national knowledge-sharing platform that will help identify, document and scale up successful healthcare innovations. By encouraging cross-learning and the adoption of evidence-based best practices, the initiative is expected to strengthen public health systems and improve the quality and effectiveness of healthcare services nationwide.
