President
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is a founding member of PHFI and has been providing leadership to the foundation since its inception in March 2006. Prior to this Prof. Reddy headed the Department of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. He graduated from the Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad and later trained at AIIMS, where he received his MD (Medicine) and DM (Cardiology) degrees with high academic honors. A clinical cardiologist also trained in epidemiology from McMaster University, Canada; he has committed his career to preventive cardiology and public health.
Prof. Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies that have contributed significantly to the growing discourse in both medicine and public health; including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, INTERHEART global study on risk factors of myocardial infarction, national collaborative studies on epidemiology of coronary heart disease and community control of rheumatic heart disease. With over 250 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals, having edited the National Medical Journal of India for ten years and as a member of the editorial board of several international and national journals he has been the recipient of several prestigious literary awards like the Global Peace Essay Contest organized by Economists Allied for Arms Reduction (ECAAR) and the Times of India National Essay Contest on Human Rights. He has been a recipient of research grants from noted scientific agencies including the Indian Council of Medical Research, NIH (Fogarty), Wellcome Trust, WHO, British Heart Foundation and the Global Forum for Health Research.
He is the Chair of the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in Developing Countries (IC Health), a global partnership programme which promotes research for prevention of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries and has been part of several WHO expert panels. He also chairs the Foundations' Advisory Board of the World Heart Federation and the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council on Chronic Diseases and is a member of the Forum's Global Health Board, the overarching advisory body on health. He has recently been appointed as the First Bernard Lown Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and is also an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
The President of India on the occasion of the 57th Republic Day of India (2005) conferred the prestigious national award- PADMA BHUSHAN to Prof. Reddy. At the 56th World Health Assembly (2003) he was awarded the WHO Director General's Award for Global Leadership in Tobacco Control. The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health in the United Kingdom also awarded him the Queen Elizabeth Medal (2005). Elected as Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine (US National Academies) in 2004, Prof. Reddy is the only Indian to be conferred such an honor. He received the Luther Terry Award for outstanding leadership in Tobacco Control from the American Cancer Society and the Honorary Fellowship of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2009).
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