Health education has pivotal bearing in attaining at least three of the eight millennium development goals (MDGs) namely; reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Promoting health education is imperative also in realizing the national objectives perceived by the health strategic plan of Nepal. It is in this perspective that the private sector has come forward to contribute in the promotion of health education, and Asian College for Advance Studies (ACAS) has made pioneering efforts towards this.

ACAS is promoted by Asian Foundation of Education and Research (AFER) Pvt. Ltd. The college in affiliation with the Purbanchal University started offering courses in health education from 2005. The college now has 300 students enrolled in different course of studies, i.e., B. Pharmacy, B. Public Health, BSc. Nursing, and B.N. It has provision for enrolling 400 students. A new team took over the management of ACAS in June 2008.