Established in 2018 and hosted at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, the India Hub is one of seven country hubs in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. We coordinate trials, cohort studies, training and community engagement across a national network of partner hospitals.
We believe access to safe, affordable surgery is a basic human right — and that the evidence to deliver it must come from the settings where care is actually given.
From tertiary teaching hospitals to remote rural sites, the Hub designs and runs research with its partners, then turns the findings into guidelines, training and policy across the Global South.
The GlobalSurg India Data Centre at Ludhiana leads study design, data management, training and education for the network — and is now developing India-led studies for collaboration with hubs worldwide.
A clinical and research team spanning Ludhiana, Manali, Vellore and Birmingham.
Leads the Hub since 2018, with a focus on rural paediatric surgery and surgical care delivery in the Global South.
Coordinates trial delivery, data and community-engagement operations across the network of partner hospitals.
Leads the Rural Surgery Research Network, building research capacity in remote and mission hospitals.
Barling Professor of Surgery; provides coordinating oversight for the global unit and its trials.
One coordinating data centre, a network of participating hospitals, and shared infrastructure for trials and training.
At CMC Ludhiana — study design, randomisation, data management, monitoring, and training for the whole network.
Urban tertiary centres through to remote rural hospitals recruit patients and collect data on their own populations.
Evidence feeds health economics, community engagement and national guideline development.
The Hub is founded at CMC Ludhiana within the NIHR Global Surgery unit, with Dr Dhruva Ghosh as Director.
The unit’s wound-infection trial completes ahead of schedule through the pandemic — a model for the network’s trials.
ASHA- and community-health-worker-led wound-care programmes roll out across rural Punjab; perioperative trials grow to 18 sites.
Awareness programmes at CMC Vellore; a keynote on India’s surgical-research leadership at ASICON; a maternal & neonatal health proposal developed.
The Rural Surgery Research Network takes shape from Manali, and the Hub launches its own web presence.
The India Hub is funded by the NIHR and works with ICMR, coordinated by the University of Birmingham and hosted at CMC Ludhiana. Trials are run to international Good Clinical Practice standards with independent oversight.