The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has launched the Monthly Webinar Series on Best Practices under the National Health Mission (NHM) on the occasion of World Population Day 2026. The initiative is intended to serve as a year-round knowledge-sharing platform for States and Union Territories to present healthcare innovations, exchange implementation experiences and support the adoption of evidence-based practices for healthcare delivery across the country.
The inaugural session was chaired by Aradhana Patnaik, Additional Secretary and Mission Director (NHM), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, who said, “Innovation is central to building responsive and resilient public health systems.” She said the webinar series would serve as an institutional mechanism to identify, document and disseminate innovations emerging from States and Union Territories, enabling solutions developed in one region to be adopted by health systems across the country.
Patnaik encouraged States and Union Territories to present innovations that go beyond existing programme frameworks and address public health challenges through locally developed solutions. She acknowledged the work of State and district teams whose initiatives often remain undocumented because of their focus on programme implementation.
She stated that the National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) would provide technical support for documenting and showcasing such innovations, expanding the scope and impact of the National Summit on Good and Replicable Innovative Practices. She also called on all States and Union Territories to participate in the webinar series to promote knowledge exchange and programme implementation.
The inaugural webinar focused on the theme ‘Anemia, Child and Adolescent Health’ and featured interventions from three States. Jharkhand presented the Anemia Mukt Bharat T4 App and its Integrated Home-Based Newborn Care (HBNC)–Home-Based Young Child Care (HBYC) Home Visits initiative. Chhattisgarh showcased Chirayu Day under the Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), while Madhya Pradesh presented its initiative on addressing adolescent obesity.
According to the ministry, these interventions were developed to address local public health challenges and demonstrated models that could be replicated in other regions. The presentations, attended by programme divisions under the ministry, also reflected alignment with national health programmes.
More than 500 officials from the national, State and district levels participated in the inaugural webinar.
The ministry stated that the webinar marked the beginning of a national knowledge-sharing platform that will facilitate the identification, documentation, dissemination and scale-up of healthcare innovations. It added that the initiative is expected to strengthen health systems and support the quality and effectiveness of healthcare services through cross-learning and the adoption of evidence-based practices.