The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched a Monthly Webinar Series on Best Practices under the National Health Mission on World Population Day 2026. The initiative aims to create a year-round knowledge-sharing platform for States and Union Territories to present successful healthcare innovations, exchange implementation experiences, and accelerate the adoption of scalable, evidence-based practices for strengthening nationwide healthcare delivery.
Smt. Aradhana Patnaik, Additional Secretary and Mission Director (NHM), chaired the inaugural session and emphasized 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 from States and UTs, enabling solutions developed in one region to benefit health systems across the country. The National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) will provide technical support for documenting and showcasing these innovations.
The inaugural webinar focused on 'Anemia, Child and Adolescent Health' and featured presentations from three states: Jharkhand presented the Anemia Mukt Bharat T4 App and its Integrated Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC)–Home-Based Young Child Care (HBYC) Home Visits initiative; Chhattisgarh showcased Chirayu Day under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK); and Madhya Pradesh presented its innovative initiative on Addressing Adolescent Obesity. These interventions emerged as promising and replicable models of good practice developed in response to local public health challenges.
Over 500 officials from national, state, and district levels participated in the webinar, reflecting strong commitment toward collaborative learning and innovation-driven health system strengthening. The webinar series represents a sustained national knowledge-sharing platform that will facilitate identification, documentation, dissemination, and scale-up of successful healthcare innovations across India's public health system.