To improve the quality of diabetes health care provided in India and other developing countries, IDRF has been established with the following objectives.
- To carry out basic and applied research in Diabetes.
- To establish, provide, maintain, and conduct or assist research laboratories and institutions for scientific research in Diabetes.
- To disseminate the research findings by publications for the health care providers and lay public.
- To train health care providers including doctors and other diabetes health care providers to improve the quality of diabetes health care in India and other developing countries.
- To promote, develop, and improve the scientific exchange of knowledge as well as technical co-operation between similar research institutions.
- To conduct conferences, refresher courses, lectures, seminars, demonstrations, and exhibitions on diabetes health care.
- To associate and collaborate with international and national research institutions, to promote diabetes research.
- To provide, award, institute fellowship or scholarships, stipends, remuneration, and/or other similar payments to students and research scholars to facilitate their scientific research in the areas of concerned interest to the Society.
- To promote and participate in global and national diabetes health care initiatives.
- To be an apex institution is providing and evidence-based solutions to the health policymakers and health administrators in formulating and implementing diabetes health care delivery systems.