Dr. Sutapa B. Neogi is a dynamic public health specialist and presently the Director of International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Delhi. She is an MBBS from Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, Kolkata; MD in Community Medicine from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh and  Diplomate of National Board (DNB) in Maternal and Child Health. Her academic credentials made her the recipient of the prestigious Kataria Memorial Gold medal as the best outgoing student of PGIMER Chandigarh in 2001. 

She has a rich experience in public health and is particularly interested in implementation of epidemiological and clinical research based projects centered around Maternal and Child health, and those with great relevance to national policies and programmes. She has authored several research papers and is a reviewer of many national and international journals. She is an associate Editor of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 

She offers her technical services to various academic and research bodies in the country including WHO SEARO, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Save the Children, Jhpiego, Nutrition International, Norwegian Indian Partnership Initiative (NIPI), to name a few.

Her goal is to mentor students and young professionals who can be the change agents in future; those who can see through problems- directly or indirectly impacting health, explore them scientifically, and engage in advocacy. She seeks to nurture researchers and bring people together who could be effective linkages between disciplines (e.g. engineering and medicine, social science and medicine), generate synergy between research and programs and promote interdisciplinary research in the country by leading and being a part of an able team.

Dr. Anandhi Ramachandran is a Healthcare Information with several years of experiences that cuts across academics, research and training. After completing her PhD degree from University of Madras, she undertook short stints of post-doctoral research experiences from Department of Civil Eng. IIT, Madras and later in Lab of Membrane Biophysics & Biochemistry, NIAAA, NIH, and Rockville, USA.  She also has additional post graduate diploma degrees in Computer Management (PGDCM), Management with Information System Specialization (PGDBM(IS)), Bioinformatics and Public Health Informatics (PGDPHI).  Her professional experience includes working as a product manager in designing and developing healthcare and medical software products. Dr. Anandhi’s specialty encompasses the integration of evolving technology into Healthcare Practices. For past 20 years she has been actively engaged in teaching, research, training healthcare professionals and consultancy with particular focus on design, development, and implementation of simple technology-based solutions for delivering effective and quality healthcare. She has been privileged to work with top government education organization like NIELIT (formerly DOEACC) and is in continuous association with professional bodies like, Indian Association for Medical Informatics, Indian Association for Patient Groups, HIMSS India (Education and Women in HIT chapters) and International Society for Telemedicine and E-Health. Serving in cross-functional capacities and professional bodies have acquainted her with the best of field practices and awareness of the healthcare information technology environment. She has published many scholarly articles, has a well-funded research track, and plays active role as reviewer in notable journals like BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Journal of Medical Internet Research and International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics. Her research interests include healthcare technology implementation (telemedicine & mobile apps), healthcare data science, healthcare technology evaluation, and utilizing the knowledge and experience gained to digital health skill building among healthcare professionals and students.

Dr.Preetha G S, Professor and Dean Research in IIHMR Delhi,  did her MBBS from Government Medical College, Trivandrum, Kerala and MD in Community Health Administration from the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare(NIHFW), New Delhi. With more than two decades of sectoral experience, she plays a pivotal role in providing key inputs to research projects and activities of the institute. She has led many research projects in different areas of public health – quantitative and qualitative, funded by national and international agencies. She teaches Epidemiology and Quality Management in Healthcare to students of Health and Hospital Management.  She has also published articles in national and international journals. In her earlier assignments, she has worked with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Government of India; NIHFW and United Nations Development Programme in various capacities.

Dr. Nishikant Bele is an Associate Professor in the area of Information System. He has received his MCA from Amravati University Amravati, Maharashtra and Doctorate in Computer Science from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. Dr. Nishikant has over 16 years of experience in teaching, training, administration and research with prominent organizations. He is a SAP certified ERP Solution consultant. He had published research papers in various journals of international repute and has attended and presented papers in many international and national conferences. Dr. Nishikant Bele has conducted MDP for Uttar Pradesh Police on Computer Competency. His areas of interest are: Business Intelligence, ERP, Data Modeling & Database Designing, Data Analysis through MS-Excel, Web and Text Mining.

Dr. Praveen Kumar is a Management IT professional having 17 plus years of work experience in Corporate and Academic environments. He holds a degree in electronics engineering and has obtained his MBA and PhD from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi.

As an IT Professional, he has expertise in project management and solution designing using multiple technologies across various business verticals. As a seasoned project manager, he had successfully executed multi-location projects with managing of stakeholders from Government of India departments (ministries and research labs), wherein, he worked on business process implementation.

As an academic researcher and trainer, he has worked in the field of emerging technologies and its utilization to various business domains and verticals. He has presented papers in national and international conferences, published research articles in journal of international repute. He has teaching and supervisory work experience in Management IT, Research Methodology, Data Science, Information Technology, and various other areas of management studies.

Dr. Vinay Tripathi has received his academic training in the discipline of Anthropology and obtained Masters, M.Phil. and Ph.D from University of Hyderabad. Before joining IHMR-Delhi, he was working with IHMR-Bangalore and was involved in teaching courses on Demography, Research Methodology, Health Survey and MIS in Healthcare. With more than five years of rich experience in the field of research and development, he has coordinated and evaluated different projects related to health, water and sanitation, education and rural development domain. With sound understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research methods, he has been instrumental in developing various research grants and proposals. He has presented papers in national conferences and published paper in a book of international repute.

Dr. Sumesh Kumar holds Ph. D, M. Phil and M.A., degrees in economics and MBA degree in finance. During over 20 years of working experience, he worked with different organizations and is well versed in industry projects, practical implications of economic theories, methods of data collection and analysis, designing curriculum, academic administration and analyzing government policies for economics and industry. He has completed many research projects in the area of economics, health and life skills. He has published various articles in leading Indian newspapers and research papers in the field of economics and management. He has been a key speaker in national and international conferences and attended several workshops and seminars.

Dr. Pankaj Talreja is a “Master Teacher” trained by Indian School of Business(ISB), Hyderabad. He is an Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi. He received his Post Graduate Diploma in Hospital Administration from Institute of Management Studies, YMCA, New Delhi in 2001. Since then he has been part of various National Health Programmes. After twenty years of illustrious career, Dr. Pankaj is pursuing his passion for Healthcare Finance.

Ekta Saroha is a Doctor of Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with over 20 years of experience in implementing public health programs in India. As a seasoned Epidemiologist and Social Scientist, she is passionate about applying quantitative research methods to address health disparities. Dr Ekta has extensive experience in teaching and training health professionals in study designs, hypothesis testing, statistical methods, data analysis, and scientific writing. Her publications in international and national peer-reviewed journals focus on infectious diseases epidemiology and health disparities. Ekta is a keen learner; she completed her master’s in Social Work from Jamia Millia Islamia and bachelor’s in Geography from Miranda House. She has basic competence in creative writing and basic fluency in Spanish. Ekta is now on a journey to master data science and artificial intelligence to maximize her impact in public health. Ekta is a fitness enthusiast who has spotted many hidden gems while trekking in India and abroad.

Dr. Shweta Sagar is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from Faculty of Social Science Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Masters in HRM and bachelor’s in social work from Jamia Millia Islamia and a recipient of UGC NET-JRF and SRF scholarship for pursuing her doctorate.

She has over 5 years of experience in teaching diverse management and HR/OB, training and development, organization change & development specialization courses.  Prior joining she was associated with Amity University, IMS Noida, Indore Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Bhai Parmanand Institute of Business Studies and Meerabai Institute of Technology, New Delhi. Dr. Sagar thrives great interest towards research and have published various papers in peer reviewed and UGC Care Journals and book chapters. She has also attended multiple national and international conference and is a receiver of "Best Paper" award in one of the conferences. Her area of interest includes training and development, organization behavior, talent acquisition and retaining, performance appraisal, people management and allied subjects.

 I belong to Statistics background from University of Delhi. In the past I have worked as a lecturer at Sri Venkateshwara College, University of Delhi and with some research organizations and institutes to build their capacities in addressing data with statistical tools and techniques. Looking forward to my new role at IIHMR. 

Mr. Pijush Kanti Khan is an Assistant Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi. He is a trained demographer & health economist and has an interest in empirical research. Prior to this, Mr. Pijush was working as a Senior Research Officer at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. His primary interest lies in the areas of Applied Demography, Economic Aspects of Health care, Maternal & Child Health, Quantitative Data Analysis, Model Specification & Multilevel Modelling. He has several publications in reputed international journals like -The Milbank Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Tropical Medicine & International Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Royal Society for Public Health etc. He has extensive experience in working with Indian sample survey datasets- National Family Health Survey (NFHS), National Sample Survey (NSS), and District Level Household Survey (DLHS). He has already submitted his Ph.D. Thesis on Population Studies at IIPS, Mumbai. His doctoral work is on Health Insurance, Health care Utilization, and Health Spending in India.

Prof. Divya Aggarwal - Divya has graduated from Delhi University in the field of Instrumentation. After that, she did her M.B.A specializing in Human Resources and Finance from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. She has more than 15 years of Academic and consultancy experience and has diverse knowledge of the corporate world. Divya is an expert on long-term success. For the past decade she devoted her energy to the investigation of long-living corporations - how they grow, adapt, and consistently beat their competitors. Under her supervision, nine post graduate students carried out research work in the area of Zoonoses which was funded by International organization. She had carried out research project on workload assessment of ANMs funded by UNICEF and has carried out various projects related to strategy and HR viz., strategy evaluation, workforce planning, competency mapping, talent retention strategies at the corporate level. She conducted Attitude Survey of Employees of Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC Bank Ltd) on 16 parameters on All India Basis and made Action Plan. She has conducted various trainings and workshops on areas related to Organizational behavior in various organizations and b-schools. Besides this, she has written various research papers in the journal of national and international repute. She is also pursuing her PhD in the area of talent management from Amity University, Noida.

Dr. Sumant Kumar Swain has a background in social sciences and awarded M Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He has cleared his UGC NET. He joined as a Research Officer (2007) and Senior Research Officer (2011) at IIHMR, Delhi.During his stay at the Institute, he was engaged in more than 40 health research projects including large scale surveys such as LASI, DLHS and NFHS. Before joining IIHMR-Delhi, he has worked with NCERT, New Delhi, India. Dr. Swain has more than twelve years of experience in national health programme evaluations, operational and formative research projects using both qualitative and quantitative methods in various health and social programmes. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies under Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia in different assignments under Indo-Russian Cultural Exchange Program by Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), Government of India. He has published one book, seven edited books and many research papers in different disciplines. His areas of interest are health survey research, implementation research, programme evaluation, project management, monitoring & evaluation, health system research, health governance and health security.

Education

M. Phil and Ph.D (JNU), Post Graduate Dipl

Dr. Sidharth Sekhar Mishra is a medical doctor with post-graduation in public health from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi and then pursued his senior residenship from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER, Chandigarh). He is a double post graduate degree holder with MD and DNB from National Board of Examination. He has been a part of the development of the National Health portal development. He was working as the consultant for COVID control pandemic at national level in Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi. He has almost 7 years' experience of training almost 3 lakh MBBS doctors for their post graduate examination. He is a social media academic influencer with a combined following of almost 50 k students. He has more than 10 publications in indexed journals; 5 books and part of UN research projects. He has visited more than 25 countries globally and brings in rich global public health experience on the table.

Dr. Rupsa Banerjee has done her MBBS and MD in Community Medicine from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, following which she completed DNB in Community Medicine. She also received PG Diploma in Mental Health from IGNOU and Diploma in Community Mental Health from NIMHANS.

Rupsa is a public health professional with over 7 years of diverse experience in the fields of medical education, clinical and patient care, public health research, health systems strengthening, providing technical support to public health programmes and capacity building. She has led multi-disciplinary teams in conducting outbreak investigations and community surveys. She has contributed to the operationalization of Ayushman Bharat Health & Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) across the country. She has conducted over 10 national level training programmes for the delivery of Comprehensive Primary Health Care through AB-HWCs. She has also contributed to developing several policy documents, technical reports, programme operational guidelines and training modules for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Rupsa has published 15 scientific papers in renowned national and international academic journals and authored chapters in medical textbooks. Her areas of interest are epidemiology, mental health, health systems strengthening and research.

Dr. Rohini Ruhil is PhD in Social Medicine and Community Health from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her other qualifications include BDS, PGDHHM and MA (Rural Development). She secured a Gold Medal at the university level in her master’s from IGNOU. She is also an alumna of IIHMR Delhi and secured a Gold Medal for best all round performance in PGDHHM. She qualified UGC-NET-JRF and got a scholarship to pursue her PhD as JRF and SRF. Her experiences include teaching, research, tobacco cessation and industry. She has also worked as a consultant in the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

She has 19 publications in journals of national and international repute including Elsevier and Sage. She is also a reviewer in several national and international journals including BMC Public Health, BMJ Open, Sage Open and Tobacco Induced Diseases (TID). She has also authored a chapter in a book. She has worked on several manuals of MOHFW including national tobacco cessation guidelines. Further, she has drafted a few manuals for WHO-SEARO Tobacco Free Initiatives.

She has done the Global Tobacco Control Certificate Program from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, for which she received a scholarship. She has presented papers in several national and international conferences, workshops and seminars and secured a few awards including Best Poster Prize and a Prize in Slogan competition in public health. She has also done national training of trainers (TOT) program in the TB-Tobacco integration Project.

Overall, she has a passion for research and academics.

Dr. Mukesh Ravi Raushan is Assistant Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi. Dr. Raushan is a demographer by training and having interest in empirical methods like causal analysis, simultaneous equation modelling and inferential statistics. After studying Social Anthropology from University of Delhi, he moved to International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), where he completed his PhD. His doctoral work was on human capital and intra-familial relationships.

His work focuses on, but not limited to demography, nutrition, education, development, empowerment, violence, gender, adolescent, ageing and society. In recent years, he has written extensively on adolescent health, ageing, and survey methods in developing countries and its linkages with critical indicators of population, health and development. Dr. Raushan has published over 18 articles, chapters and scientific reports.

His expertise in monitoring, learning and evaluation; large scale survey data analysis and survey research is an asset. In recent years, Dr. Raushan largely worked on health & mortality, disease burden, abortion, reproductive & sexual health, medical anthropology, ageing, adolescent health, gender and development, and critical global health. For monitoring, learning and supervision, other than research, he remained resourceful on research methodology, survey research methods, data structure, management and analysis. His area of interest are biostatistics, applied demography, survey research, monitoring, learning and supervision, data quality assurance, public policy, programme evaluations and intervention studies.

Before joining IIHMR-Delhi, he was associated with Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Situation of Adolescent, Dasra, Impact Foundation; Evidence Action, and Sigma Research. Dr. Raushan is interested in applying his research and technical expertise to provide evidence-based support to explore an unexplored area of research other than teaching and capacity building.

Dr. Sukesh Bhardwaj is an IT professional with 9+ years of work experience in Information technology domain. By qualification, he is a Ph.D. in Cloud Computing, MCA, Cisco Certified Network Associate. He has also done Global Net Plus Diploma in Systems and Networking from NIIT.

He has worked at IIHMR Delhi as a Senior System Analyst-IT Deptt. Head more than 7 years. He worked as an IT Coordinator in National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) Odisha State and (NFHS-4) Chhattisgarh State under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. He has an extensive experience in Technical Trainings, SOP Development, Systems Planning & Designing, Integration and development.

He has expertise on several types of ERPs for Real-Estate, and Education industry. CRM’s, Payroll and biometric Systems, Security Surveillance systems, He is also engaged in Academic Teaching and other trainings within the organization.

A Medical graduate & Post – Graduate (MBA) in Hospital Management from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi and Ph.D. in Hospital Management/ Management from MATS University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh & one-year Advance Diploma in Computer Software from IICE, New Delhi. More than 12 years of Industry experience in the field of Hospital Administration / Management, Hospital Functioning, Medical administration, clinical and non-clinical operations, strategic planning and implementation, Purchase, Supply chain Management, Finance, Business Development, Cost Rationalization, P&L management, and Revenue, Consultant/Doctors Engagement, Accounting, Internal Quality Management & Audit, Inventory Management, Legal aspects, MRD, Medical Equipment, and Drugs- Budgeting and Planning, Manpower Planning, HMIS system, MIS, Quality Accreditation- JCI, NABH & NABL accreditation, Patient Safety, Risk Management, formulation of policy & SOPs. 

Worked for the Apollo Hospitals Group for four years. Worked as Asst. Medical Superintendent in a Hospital / Institute for more than eight years with a total bed capacity of 1400 Beds. a tertiary care multi-specialty hospital and Regional Cancer Institute attached with PT. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Besides this have attended various National & International conferences, seminars, training programs and workshops and have presented various papers in the National & International Conferences / seminars. Have written various papers in National and International Journals of repute. 

Have been Awarded under GOLD and SILVER category by Skoch Foundation at the 47th Skoch Summit, held at Constitution Club of India, Rafi Marg, New Delhi. Awarded by Honorable Health Minister of State of Chhattisgarh, Mr. T.S. Singdeoji & Chairman Chhattisgarh Women’s Commission Ms. Kiran Mai nayak for exemplary work in the Medical College Hospital in fighting the COVID pandemic on 23rd Dec 2021 held at Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

Ratika Samtani is a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Delhi and was awarded the Teaching Fellowship by University of Delhi while pursuing her research. She has also cleared UGC-NET.

Ratika worked as an Assistant Professor at Amity University, Noida for a span of ten years. She was also awarded the Young Investigators award by Department of Biotechnology for her project proposal in the field of Cancer Biology. Under this, she was the Principal Investigator of the DBT funded project, “Screening and Epigenetic Profiling of Ovarian Cancer in Malwa region of Punjab” for a span of four years. She has supervised and mentored a number of doctoral students’ scholars in their research endeavors.

Ratika has carried out a number of research projects and published articles in the area of environmental health, pesticide toxicity, cancer epigenetics, infectious diseases, bio-social determinants of health, genetics of complex disorders, beta thalassemia, sickle cell anemia etc. She has published more than 25 research articles in national and international journals of repute and has presented papers in various National and International Conferences. She has also developed e-content modules for online learning platforms like e-pg pathshala and e-gyan kosh. 

Ratika also held the position of Manager-Learning and Development at NatureNurture Eduserv, where she created curriculum using a variety of pedagogical approaches (such as Bloom's taxonomy, the Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, Howard Gardner's Model of Multiple Intelligences, and 21st century skills).

After graduating from AFMC, joined Central Health Service (CHS) Govt. of India in 1972. Completed MD (HA) and DNB during service. Awarded Colombo Plan Fellowship to undergo one year diploma in health services administration (DHSA) at Nuffield institute, university of Leeds (UK) 1981-82.
After a brief stint Worked as medical officer in ESIC, CGHS worked as Assistant Medical Superintendent, Safdarjung Hospital. From 1981-96 worked as senior faculty in department of Medical Care and Hospital Administration at NIHFW. Subsequently, as Professor and Director, School of Health Sciences, IGNOU pioneered the planning, development and launch of about a dozen post-graduate diploma and degree programs through distance learning for doctors and nurses. Some notable programs are PG Diploma in Clinical Cardiology, Dialysis Medicine, HealthCare Waste Management, Rural Surgery and Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing. Currently working as Adjunct faculty, International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), New Delhi. Visited more than 35 countries on various short term and long term assignment of IGNOU, WHO, UNDP and Govt. of India. More than 40 publications and 3 books including a chapter in WHO Geneva’s Blue Book (2nd Edition) on Health Care Waste Management. Visiting teacher to Andrija Stamper School of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia, 1988-1990. Recently worked as Quality Assurance and Accreditation expert in European Union – GOI project from Nov 2012 – Dec 2013. Principal inv

Ex-Advisor (Public Health Paining), National Health Systems Resource Centre(MoHFW, Govt of India) and Ex Chief of UNICEF State offices in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Academic Qualification:

•   FIPHA (Fellow Indian Public Health Association) 1996
•  MD (Preventive & Social Medicine), Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India (1979)
•  MNAMS (Member National Academy of Medical Sciences) in (Preventive and Social Medicine), National Board of Exams, Delhi, India (1981)
•  MS (International Course in Epidemiology), Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (1987)
•  MBBS-Medical Subjects, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University, Delhi, India (1973)

Dr Satish has started his public health career in the year 1975, by contributing to the WHO Small Pox Eradication Program in Bihar for which he was awarded a Certificate of Merit. He joined Institute of Medical Sciences-Banaras Hindu University as Lecturer-Preventive and Social Medicine in 1979.  He served the University for more than 11 years and supervised Post Graduate (MD) and Ph.D research theses and worked as investigator /co investigator in multi-centric community based research projects.

Later on, in 1990 he joined UNICEF as a Project Officer-Health& Nutrition for West Bengal and Assam. In Aug 2000 he acquired the position of UNICEF Chief for Rajasthan and for Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the year 2008. He served the organization for over 24 years. Thereafter, he has been working as an Advisor Public Health Planning, in NHSRC, Ω≈dxMoHFW since 2014 till his retirement from the post on August 31, 2017. As Advisor, Public Health Planning, he was actively involved and led the process of developing the National Health Policy-2017. Since October2017, Dr. Satish Kumar has been serving International Institute of Health Management Research, Delhi as an Adjunct Professor

Dr Satish has more than 80 publications on maternal health, child malnutrition, water and sanitation, Micronutrients programme, Urban Health and health system research and Health Policy. He is also a recipient of Dr B.C DasGupta memorial oration award by the IPHA

Dr. Satish Kumar has also served as a resource person on many National and State Level Committees on NHM, 12th plan development, National Health Policy Development, Child Policy for Rajasthan, prevention of Child Trafficking and Child Sexual abuse in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He is also a member of Porject Review Group (HSR) of ICMR, Delhi and has also served as a Member School Board, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad and a Member of Governing Board of School of Public Health SRM , University Tamil Nadu

Dr. A. K. Khokhar is presently working as Adjunct Professor at International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi. He worked as Dean – Training and Professor (Hospital Administration) at IIHMR Delhi from August 2012 till September 2020 after his retirement from ESIC. He is a Medical graduate with 4 post graduations in the field of Health Care Administration and Hospital Administration. Besides working in different positions in ESIC Medical services (Ministry of Labour, Government of India) for 36 years, he has been teaching as Visiting faculty at FMS, University of Delhi, and Institute of Management Studies, YMCA, New Delhi for 24 years. He was also a visiting faculty of IIHMR- Jaipur, NIHFW, SAIL and NTPC. Hospital Administration has been one of his prime areas of interest. He has held important positions of Additional Medical Superintendent, Medical Superintendent, State Medical Commissioner and has been instrumental in developing policies and procedures related to Bio Medical Waste Management, HIV/ AIDS, Occupational Health, Supply Chain Management etc at Institutional as well as State level. He contributed a Chapter on Waste Management in the Module designed by IGNOU for Certificate course on Bio Medical Waste Management. He is one amongst the oldest members of Hospital Infection Society which is taking up number of issues related to Patient Safety. He has organized a number of courses on Hospital Administration for Senior Doctors during his tenure at ESIC. He was the Editor of Journal of Hospital Administration of IHA for ten years. He has carried out a number of studies and surveys on the role of hospitals in primary health care and has also written two books. He has been proactive in developing professional management in hospitals and has developed a number of Case Studies. He has attended and presented papers on different aspects of Hospital Management in various conferences at national and international levels. In his last assignment as Medical Superintendent at ESIC Model Hospital, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, he was instrumental in developing and starting Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, and Undergraduate Medical College, under ESIC.