In 1994, Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) was started as a Research Centre of the Anusandhan Trust. CEHAT began as an experiment to bridge the gap between academic theory and grassroots practice...
As a health research institution, CEHAT is not a conventional "people's organisation," and does not pretend to be so. But its identification with people's movements and organisations is more in terms of selecting socially relevant, pro-people themes and topics for research to strengthen people's health movement and to realise the right to health and health care. Our research is not undertaken with mere academic interests, rather we take efforts to share the findings with grassroots organisations and make the research findings usable for social change, campaigns and advocacy.