The Tata group's efforts in the healthcare sector span the spectrum — from tackling communicable diseases like malaria and tuberculosis, to improving maternal and neonatal health, and increasing access to cancer care in the country.

The group's commitment to healthcare has been evident from the time founder Jamsetji Tata ensured his mill workers had access to dispensaries, well before these were commonplace in India. Since then, the Tatas have established the Tata Memorial Centre (1941) — giving India its first quality cancer care facility — followed by the inauguration of the Tata Medical Centre (2011), that further helped ease the cancer care burden in the country.

The Tata Trusts' partnerships with state and central governments, NGOs and other philanthropic organisations has led to impactful initiatives to prevent and treat communicable diseases, improve nutrition and promote fortification, and build knowledge and infrastructure for hygiene and sanitation in the remotest parts of the country.