The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care
Values-based care supporting practitioners and patients

Launched in December 1997 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care is a UK-registered charity supporting research and awareness in the field of health and spirituality.

The Foundation’s original primary objective was to support the work of the Global Hospital and Research Centre (GHRC) in Mt Abu, India, where a holistic model of healthcare enabled by a dedicated approach to values development has been pioneered. The hospital and its associated health outreach facility works in partnership with the World Health Organisation in the STOP TB campaign and is reducing child mortality and improving maternal health in the region through nutritional supplements, health checkups and immunization.

The Foundation continues to provide extensive support for this work. Under the guidance of Dadi Janki, its president, it has also extended its remit to include values-based educational initiatives within the healthcare sector worldwide. In September 2004 it launched Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach, a personal and team development programme for healthcare practitioners. By June, 2006, the programme had been introduced in more than 30 countries.

The Foundation also publishes information leaflets for patients and holds regular conferences, seminars and an annual lecture exploring the spiritual dimension of healthcare. Research findings and clinical experience increasingly reveal that spiritual factors have a part to play in recovery from illness. The Foundation’s premise is that better understanding of these factors can benefit both the patient and practitioner, by promoting the healing process, reducing stress and staff fatigue and raising morale.

The Foundation’s activities include support for health practitioners in attending to their own well-being, through reflective and other techniques that facilitate re-connection with their own highest values.

Dadi Janki, co-administrative head of the Mt Abu-based Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, is chief patron of the Global Hospital.