Launch of Case Study on the “Total Health” Program

December 2020

The India Research Center and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health announce the launch of the case study on Apollo Hospital Group’s Total Health Program led by Richard Siegrist, senior lecturer on health care management, and faculty director for the DrPH Program at Harvard Chan School.

Total Health is a corporate social responsibility initiative founded by Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, chairman of Apollo Hospitals Group, in his native village of Aragonda, a small village in the Chittur district of Andhra Pradesh. The teaching case describes the drivers of the success of Total Health and raises questions for the students about how to evaluate its community impact, make it sustainable, and replicate it in other rural areas of India.

The webinar hosted Michelle Williams, dean of the faculty and Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development at Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School; Dr. K. Viswanath, Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication, Harvard Chan School, and leadership from Apollo Hospitals Group inluding Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman; Ms. Suneeta Reddy, Managing Director; and Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Group.