The Partnership for Education of Health Professionals (PEP) is a global flagship initiative to strengthening capacity of education of health professionals in cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs) in India, Kenya, and East Africa. Read more about the programme here.
The PEP programme was launched in India in 2023 through three initial scoping projects running up to 2025. The projects aimed at institutional capacity development focused on accelerated use of digital technologies and online and blended teaching-learning methods. The long-term ambition is to make
quality education accessible particularly in low-resource settings with a focus on cardiometabolic diseases.
In January 2025, PEP India kickstarted two diverse projects, alongside three ongoing scoping projects:
- Capacity development for innovative and quality CMD education at Regional Nursing College, Assam marking the programme’s first partnership in Northeastern India based in the state of Assam.
- Establishment of a PEP Partnership Hub in India to strengthen networking and knowledge sharing across the PEP partners and the larger health education ecosystem, hosted at Public Health Foundation of India
Additionally, three scaling projects will begin implementation from July 2025 for a duration of five years, through a hub-and-spoke model with the collective objectives of:
- Developing, delivering, and scaling quality education of health professionals in CMD prevention and care, harnessing strengthened capacity in digital and innovative teaching methods.
- Strengthening the capacity of nursing colleges nationally and in the Northeast region to deliver quality nursing education and enable professional development of nurses.
- Enabling networks, evidence, and leadership capacity to inform health education policy and practices.
Partners for these interventions have been instrumental in shaping the programme’s contours and are key stakeholders in India’s health education ecosystem. They include:
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi through a project titled ‘Establishing a Centre of Excellence for the Education of Health Professionals’.
- Christian Medical College, Vellore through a project titled ‘Supporting Health Equity and Reach by establishing a Centre of Excellence in Innovations in Education’
- Public Health Foundation of India through a project titled ‘Advancing OBL capacity for strengthening Public Health Education in India’
PEP India projects have been co-developed with local partners in alignment with national policy priorities leveraging key expertise from the health systems landscape. All projects have an integrated gender lens promoting career opportunities for women in health, research and leadership.
