Prof. K. Srinath Reddy
President, Public Health Foundation of India

Email: ksrinath.reddy@phfi.org

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India till recently headed the Department of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He graduated from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad and later trained at AIIMS, Delhi, where he received his MD (Medicine) and DM (Cardiology) degrees, with high academic honours. He is a clinical cardiologist, also trained in epidemiology (at McMaster University, Canada), and has a career commitment to preventive cardiology and public health.

Prof. Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, Indian Council of Medical Research commissioned national collaborative studies on Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease and Community Control of Rheumatic Heart Disease and INTERHEART global study on risk factors of myocardial infarction. He is the Coordinator of the Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the Developing Countries, a global partnership programme which serves to strengthen research related to prevention of cardiovascular diseases in the developing countries. He has served on many WHO expert panels. He has also served as Chair of the Scientific Council on Epidemiology of the World Heart Federation (2003-2006) and has recently been elected to serve as Chair of the Federation's Foundation Advisory Board (2007-2010).

Prof. Reddy edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years and is on the editorial board of several international and national journals. He has more than 210 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals.

Prof. Reddy was awarded the WHO Director General's Award for Global Leadership in Tobacco Control at the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003. He has represented India in inter-governmental treaty negotiations on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Conference of Parties of that treaty. He was conferred the prestigious national award PADMA BHUSHAN by the President of India (one of the highest civilian awards conferred by the Government of India) on the occasion of the 57th Republic Day of India, in 2005. The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, UK, conferred the award of the Queen Elizabeth Medal for 2005 to Prof. Reddy.

Prof. Reddy has been active in organizing school-based health education programmes, under the HRIDAY-SHAN programme which he initiated in 1992. HRIDAY has won international recognition for its innovative programmes of health awareness and advocacy and was awarded the WHO Global Tobacco Free World Award in 2002. It has been recommended by WHO as a model programme, to be replicated in other countries. He recently organized the first ever Global Youth Meet on Health (GYM 2006) in New Delhi and facilitated the launch of the Youth For Health (Y4H) global network for health advocacy and action.

Prof. Snehendu B. Kar
Advisor, Academic Programmes

Email: kar@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Psycho-social determinants of behavior, health promotion and communication, and community empowerment

During four decades of his academic career, Prof. Kar has served in several important positions in leading US universities including as the Associate Dean and Chairman of the UCLA School of Public health, Director of UCLA’s Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Division, and the Chair of Population Planning at the University of Michigan. He was also the founding Director and Chair of the Executive MPH Program in Community Health Sciences at UCLA. His publications include over 125 peer-reviewed research papers, five books, and several monographs.

Prof. Kar received his M.Sc. (1958) in Psychology from the University of Calcutta (now Kolkata), and his Doctorate (1966) and Master’s (1964) degrees in Public Health and Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Kar’s research and professional interests focus on population-based health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP), with special emphasis on areas including community empowerment and leadership development; health communication and education; psychosocial determinants of health and Public Health leadership development.

He has directed several multi-national studies on the effects of acculturation on quality of life and health among Asian immigrants in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Thailand and USA; empowerment of women and mothers for health risk reduction in multicultural and underserved community and public health practice strategies in underserved communities. The “Rescatando Salud” directed by Prof. Kar and his colleagues won the National Award for Excellence in Addressing Health Disparities in 2001. His honors and awards include the Fulbright Commission Fellowship, Kellogg International Senior Fellow in Health, Ford Foundation Population Communication Fellow, East-West Center Population Communication Fellow, Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health, and the Public Health Leadership Institutes (CDC/ Univ. of California). He is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues and the American Psychological Society.

Dr. Sanjay Zodpey
Director - Public Health Education

Email: sanjay.zodpey@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Evidence-Based Health Care, Health Policy, Health Systems Research, Program Evaluation and Public Health Governance

Dr Zodpey has nearly 15 years of experience in teaching, training, research, administration, monitoring and evaluation in public health activities. He has also closely worked with public health systems in several states across India.

He earned his MD (Social and Preventive Medicine) and PhD (Faculty of Medicine - Preventive and Social Medicine (Case-Control Studies and Meta-Analysis)) from Nagpur University. He also holds an MA (Sociology), MA (Public Administration) and MA (Economics). He has been associated with INCLEN for the last 10 years, and has participated in 37 funded research projects, secured 20 research awards and published 125 research papers and journal articles.

Dr Zodpey previously served as a Vice Dean at Government Medical College Nagpur. Further, he has been working on various University committees for last few years and has been a member of various committees / task forces constituted by State and Central Government, in addition to working with various development partners.

Dr. Subhadra Menon
Senior Health Communication Specialist

Email: subhadra.menon@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Health communication and advocacy, with a special focus on health systems strengthening, health policy and advocacy

A Ph.D. in Reproductive Biology from the University of Delhi, Dr Menon is a health communication and advocacy expert who has worked in the health field in India for over two decades and in diverse capacities covering professional and community activist experiences.

She taught under-graduate science at the same university for four years before progressing to health and science journalism in India. She was Principal Correspondent (Health, Science and Environment) for India Today magazine, covering health, science and environment news. Subhadra is an award-winning and prolific writer with more than 400 articles and features published in Indian and international newspapers and magazines. Her critically acclaimed book on urban India's public health scenario, 'No Place to Go: Stories of Hope and Despair from India's Ailing Health Sector' (Penguin Books) was short-listed for the New India Foundation Prize.

Dr. Menon has worked over the years to increasingly focus on the improvement of public health in India through health communication and advocacy, consensus and capacity building, policy analysis, research and writing.

Prior to joining PHFI, she was Project Director for the Essential Advocacy Project (EAP) at Constella Futures, a technical, advocacy capacity building partner of Avahan - the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The EAP worked on supporting and enhancing HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts to create a strengthened enabling environment for vulnerable populations to claim their rights.Previously, she was with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and part of a leadership team that helped launch India's first AIDS vaccine trial.

Dr. S. K. Satpathy
Director- Training

Email: satpathy@phfi.org

Areas of Interest: Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Programme Planning and Management (HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Reproductive And Child Health, Disease Surveillance And Control Of Disease Outbreaks, Health Infrastructure And Health Manpower.

Dr. Satpathy is an epidemiologist by training. After obtaining a doctorate degree in Preventive and Social Medicine from Banaras Hindu University, he obtained an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He further pursued specialized training in Family Planning/Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programmes in (Sri Lanka, Indonesia), gender and health (South Africa), malaria and other tropical diseases (Thailand), the Expanded Programme of Immunization (WHO HQ), chronic respiratory diseases (London) and surveillance and rapid response in avian influenza(WHO). Concurrently, he also holds experience in teaching technology for medical teachers in India.

Dr. Satpathy brings with him 22 years of teaching experience and 12 years of expertise as a Health Programme Manager at national, regional and state levels. He has worked with the Government of India and international donor agency DANIDA, and he has also taught at Ahmedu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.

Ms. Kalpana Swamy
Senior Administrator- Academic Affairs

Email: kalpana.swamy@phfi.org

Ms. Swamy comes with over two decades of rich and diverse experience in government departments and premier institutions reflecting career growth through increasing levels of multifunctional responsibility. Previously, Ms. Swamy was Director at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi and responsible for strategic management functions and overall administration of the eight centres located in major cities across country. Her key performance areas include institution building, policy and planning, systems and resource management, academic administration and strengthening of linkages through extensive networking with the Central & State Governments, academic institutions, industry and other agencies for strengthening ongoing initiatives, as well as exploring new ones.

At PHFI, Ms. Swamy is responsible for the administration, development, conduct and evaluation of all academic courses run by PHFI and its affiliated Indian Institutes of Public Health in association with senior personnel at PHFI and Directors of the IIPHs.