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Anand Krishnan’s work has spanned the entire spectrum of public health from evidence generation to developing tools for its deployment and finally policies and program development. Evidence generated by him include those on NCD burden assessment, community-based prevention of NCDs, addressing primary health care through NCDs. He has more than 300 publications to his credit in national and international journals. He also leads the AIIMS support unit to Registrar General of India for the Verbal autopsy based mortality surveillance system in the country.
He heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Capacity Building and Research in community-based strategies for NCDs prevention and control and has worked with Many South-east Asian countries in conducting National NCD risk factor surveys and development of their National Multi-sectoral action plan for prevention and control of NCDs. He is member of the Board of the National Health System Resource Centre, which is the technical wing of the Ministry of health and family welfare and advises on technical aspects of the National health Mission. He is also involved with the Innovation and Learning Centre centered at AIIMS New Delhi which support District health officials (at Mewat district) in implementation of the different national health initiatives including the Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre scheme. He is a member of the curriculum committee for the Community Health Officers, a newly introduced mid-level health care provider under this scheme. He is a member of multiple national and international bodies in public health and his contribution in public health has been well recognized by national level organizations like Indian Public Health Association, Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, Indian Council of Medical Research, National Academy of Medical Sciences through conferment of orations, fellowships, and awards.

kanand@aiims.ac.in

Dr. Bairwa is medical doctor and public health specialist, trained in Health Management and Community Health. His areas of interest are disease burden, noncommunicable disease epidemiology, health systems, and evidence-based public health practice. He has supported WHO-SEARO in developing and implementing virtual training and capacity building on people-centred NCD service delivery in primary health care of South East Asian countries. Previously, he was faculty of Epidemiology and Health Management and Program Coordinator of Johns Hopkins-IIHMR co-operative MPH program at IIHMR University, Jaipur. Dr. Bairwa has over 50 publications and his h- index is 15. He is editorial board member of BMC Public Health and Lung India.

drmohanbairwa@gmail.com

As a clinical researcher Nikhil Tandon’s work focuses on the epidemiology of chronic diseases, translational and implementation science research. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications. Nikhil has been the recipient of the fellowships of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal College of Physicians, Indian Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences. He is also the recipient of the Dr BC Roy Award (2005) and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015.

Affiliation: Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

Preet has a Post Graduate Diploma Health Management from IIHMR, Jaipur and Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the Government Dental College Rohtak. She has a decade of experience in project management & implementation including donor funded projects, program design & operations, quality assurance, implementation of innovations, evidence generation, public health assessment, recruitment, medical services management, hospital operations, capacity building, business development etc. She has gained technical experience in public health space while working closely with government policies & program implementation. Through her professional journey she had the opportunity to support in delivery of comprehensive primary health care services as envisaged under Ayushman Bharat- Health & Wellness Center initiative across four states in India including usage of digital health interventions –Telemedicine audio-video consultations, Point of care diagnostics (POCDs), capacity building and skill enhancement through both classroom settings & virtual trainings, and electronic health records (EHR), community mobilization including development of communications & IEC materials & related analytics for program mid-course correction. Her work also involved designing approaches to generate evidence on impact of pilot interventions and key lessons learnt, in drafting of technical narratives, research reports & dissemination products. She has been involved in Implementation of National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS), NABH, LaQshya and Kayakalp Standards/operational guidelines at public health facilities (District Hospital, Sub District Hospital, Community Health Centre, and Primary Health Centre) and achieved accreditation. She also has an experience of managing medical services, academic programs and human resource in one of India’s largest multi-specialty hospitals.

dr.preetaiims@gmail.com

Priyanka Parhad is a public health professional with a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raipur. With over five years of experience in health systems strengthening, her expertise is particularly focused on comprehensive primary health care.

During her tenure at the State Health Resource Centre (SHSRC) in Chhattisgarh, she contributed to improving the functionality of Health and Wellness Centers under the Ayushman Bharat Program. Her work involved building the capacity of primary health care teams, overseeing program implementation and leading significant research initiatives aimed at strengthening the health system. Prior to her role at the SHSRC, she served as a dental surgeon with the National Health Mission (NHM), Chhattisgarh.

Her key areas of interest include health policy, health system strengthening, and primary health care.

Sumit Malhotra served at Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project, Ballabgarh from 2014 to 2019. He has authored a book on Primary Health Care- Indian Scenario with support of World Health Organization- Country Office India and has several publications in National and International indexed peer reviewed journals. He has led health systems based projects evaluating performance of national health initiatives at district and block levels. He is also the nodal person for Innovation and Learning Centre and strengthening implementation of comprehensive primary health care in aspirational district Mewat (Nuh) of Haryana. He is also using tele-mentoring mechanisms for capacity building of primary health workforce. Sumit is the national level master trainer for newer packages rolled out under comprehensive primary health care and has trained several batches of national level trainers and primary health care functionaries. He was also part of a national level task force for mentoring mid-level health care providers at health and wellness centres, constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. As part of IPSI project, he is engaged in development and roll out of implementation research activities for state and district level program managers, aiming to enhance implementation research capacity.

drsumitaiims2012@gmail.com