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India's PHFI beats Harvard; bags 2nd place in global rankings for schools of public health

PHFI, which has been ranked below only one other institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) in the Public Health Academic Ranking (PHAR). Image Credit: The Public Health Foundation of India

India's PHFI beats Harvard; bags 2nd place in global rankings for schools of public health
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The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), which governs the Indian Institutes of Public Health across India, has been ranked second top public health institution globally, surpassing Harvard's T H Chan School of Public Health. 

The rankings listed the top international public health schools in a report titled “A New Model for Ranking Schools of Public Health: The Public Health Academic Ranking” published in the International Journal of Public Health, Switzerland. 

PHFI, which has been ranked below only one other institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK) in the Public Health Academic Ranking (PHAR).  

TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University (US) secured the third position. The Swiss School of Public Health (Switzerland) ranked fourth and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (US) was ranked fifth.

The authors of the report said that given the importance of public health, the common use of rankings in the academic world, and the demand for a valid ranking system, a ranking for schools of public health was designed and tested.

The PHAR was designed using research analytics tool InCites Benchmarking and Analytics and the database of citation index Web of Science Core Collection. The authors collected bibliometric data on 26 schools of public health from each continent, between August and September 2022. 

It incorporated eleven research indicators/scores, covering four criteria (productivity, quality, accessibility for readers, international collaboration), for the period 2017–2021. 

“Although two of the top five schools were from the United States, the top ten included institutions from four continents. The presence of schools from India, Thailand, South Africa and Singapore is notable and may reflect the increasing importance of public health research in non-high-income countries,” the report said.

Making up the top 10 in the list of 26 schools are the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (Thailand); School of Public Health, University of Cape Town (South Africa); Institute of Population Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK); Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore (Singapore) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (Spain).