Title - INDIAN RAILWAY PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE – 2013

14th Annual Conference of the Indian Railway Public Health Conference is being organised by the Medical Department of Southern Railway and is being held at Hotel The Aruna Chennai, Sterling Road, Chennai, on 22nd and 23rd August 2013. Dr. P.S. Prasad, Director General of Railway Health Services, Railway Board, New Delhi, is the Chief Guest of the inaugural function.Shri Rakesh Misra, General Manager, Southern Railway will be presiding over the function.Dr. G. Narayanan, Additional General Manager, Southern Railway, along with PHODs and HODs of Southern Railway and ICF, office bearers of IRPHA and IPHA will be participating.About 150 delegates from all over Indian Railway will be participating in the conference.

In the conference, there will be 10 sessions by eminent public health specialists on various important public health issues and one panel discussion on Alhocol and substance abuse disorder management in industrial organisations.Fifteen free papers will be presented by Indian Railway Medical Services (IRMS) doctors.At the end of the conference, based on the deliberations, recommendations will be submitted by the IRPHAto Railway Board for favourable consideration to implement, so as to benefit the railway beneficiaries and railway users.