Community Health Cell (CHC) has always provided space, support, peer encouragement, vocational guidance, facilitation of self study and short term linkages – for professionals, both junior and senior, in community health. The linkages have been flexible and responsive to individual search, and supportive of paradigm shifts in personal careers many of which have included shifts from being institutional based, moving towards community action within an analytic, societal context. Over two decades, CHC has offered these individuals space to learn, reflect and interact with senior community health practitioners in India.

In 2003, CHC reached its twentieth milestone, and a Community Health Internship/ Fellowship Scheme was initiated with support from the Sir Ratan Tata Trust for three years (2003 – 2006) as Phase I and was later extended up to 2007. The Community Health Fellowship Scheme (2003-2007) was an attempt to formalize the process of learning in community health and 23 young professionals participated in the CHFS formally and another 17 participants went through the orientation programme of community health or through individual learning programmes.

This opportunity of learning-reflection-action later evolved into the 2nd Phase of the CHFS as the Community Health Learning Programme (CHLP).

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