Recent attempts to increase the access to public health education in India are welcome developments. A previous estimate dated the year 2010 identified twenty three institutes in India offering masters level public health trainings (MPH) and over five hundred graduates passing out through these institutes every year. Since then many new institutes have come up in various states in India. This is in addition to other formal training programmes in community medicine, community dentistry and community nursing that are offered in the medical, dental and nursing colleges.