The Health Ministry has unveiled the Draft National Health Research Policy 2026. Officials describe it as India’s first comprehensive national framework for health research spanning biomedical and digital health fields.
A draft policy invites stakeholder comment before final adoption. Covering biomedical and digital health in one framework aims to align traditional medical research with data-driven and technology-enabled work.
Calling it the first comprehensive national framework underscores the government’s claim of scope rather than incremental guideline updates. The Saachi Baat–linked summary did not list funding commitments attached to the draft.
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