In the year 1987, Diploma course in Health Education (DHE) was started under the “Development of National Trained Health Manpower for the training of health education specialists and para-medical worker’s” scheme of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. In the year 2000, the course was renamed as Diploma in Health Promotion Education (DHPE). It is a one year residential diploma recognised by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), a Deemed University under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Thirty first batch comprising of 21 trainees has been successfully completed in May 2017. The 32nd batch of DHPE comprising of 23 trainees from the states of Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Nagaland and Madhya Pradesh has commenced from June 2018.

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