Chandrakant Lahariya
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Chandrakant Lahariya | |
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| Alma mater | University of Delhi, University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute, Paris |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Notable work | Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 A Review of Preventive and Social Medicine, 2008 |
Chandrakant Lahariya is an Indian medical doctor, public health & policy expert and writer.[1]
Lahariya is the author of the book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
In early 2008, Lahariya joined the World Health Organization in India, where - in the years which followed - he coordinated the organization's work on the new vaccines introduced in the country.[3][4]
In the year 2012, he received Indian Council of Medical Research's Dr B.C. Srivastava Foundation Award for his work on translating community-based health research into public policy interventions.[5]
In October 2020, in a study conducted by Stanford University and published in the reputed PLoS Biology, Lahariya was listed amongst the top 2% of researchers globally, in the fields of pediatrics and public health.[6] He was, once again, included in the list of Top 2% researcher globally, in 2021.[7]
