About Us

Anaemia in adolescent girls and women continues to be a pervasive public health problem in South Asia, affecting nearly half of all adolescent girls and women aged 15–49 years in the region. Without concerted action, 18 million more adolescent girls and women in this age group could become anaemic by 2030, adding to the current burden of 259 million 


In context of SAU’s mandate and its international public university status, Center on Precision Health & Nutrition (CPHN) is an autonomous centre governed through operational model that is unique, scalable and impact oriented that is trans-boundary, interdisciplinary while solidifying partnerships and collaborations in South Asia, global South and beyond.  The Centre is aimed at seamlessly To galvanize regional momentum to accelerate national efforts to reduce the burden of anaemia due to nutritional and non-nutritional causes in adolescent girls and women.

While green transition serves as a set of tools and metrics to identify stakeholders for purposes of building inter linkages through academic programs, imparting of skills, training and capacity building interventions and public policies to effectively combat adverse climate change impacts, covering the realms of trans boundary geo-politics, environmental security and shared natural resources, supply chains and mobility.  

Sustainability whereas is a business case for climate change completing the intrinsic loop while creating favorable conditions and for climate change through adaptation, mitigation and resilience mechanisms.

As the Centre is located within SAU, it would act as an academic unit imparting knowledge, skills and degrees at bachelors, masters and doctoral levels in a time bound manner while being focused on policies, practice, and partnerships at regional and Intenational levels.

It would also undertake online training, academic and executive programs with focus on educating the youth and community on climate change while supporting solutions through climate and nature actions.  

It would gradually emerge as a technical and evidence-based knowledge hub working around skills, training, policy reports, forecast modelling, among others. One of the critical goals that the Centre would pursue from the start would be its industry orientation, interdisciplinary approach and technology adaptation in pursuit of its strategic plan. 
 
The Centre is autonomous in nature, flat in structure, interdisciplinary in approach with operating aggregation model. 

Member states of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) who jointly set up South Asian University (SAU) through an inter governmental agreement, 2007 under India's leadership