Dr. Rohini Ruhil

Assistant Professor

Email: rohini@iihmrdelhi.edu.in

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.