Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University and the Australasian Centre for Health Service Management have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up South Asian Centre for Health Service Management.

The MoU was signed in the University campus on May 7 in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr S Geethalakshmi, Registrar Dr T Balasubramanian, and ACHSM President Dr Neale Fong. Together the two institutions would establish South Asian Centre of Health Service Management in the TNMGRMU and encourage clinicians working as Health Service managers as well as hospital administrators across Tamil Nadu to achieve recognition as a Fellow in Health Service Management. Improving leadership skills would pave way for healthy communities, a varsity release on May 8 said.