Chandrakant Lahariya

Chandrakant Lahariya
Nationality	Indian
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]}

Awards and recognitions

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]

Books and writing

Lahariya is the author of the book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic , co-authored with Randeep Guleria of AIIMS, New Delhi and Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College, Vellore. ^[8]

In 2009-10, Lahariya was the guest editor (along with Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, then Professor of pediatrics at AIIMS, New Delhi and now Member of NITI Aayog, Govt. of India) of a special series on child survival in India. ^{[9] [10] [11]} This series was published in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics and had contributions from leading Indian health experts including Prema Ramachandran, Deoki Nandan, Prasanna K. Hota, and Shiv Lal. Lahariya who had co-authored a few articles, including one with Dr Vinod Kumar Paul of NITI Aayog. ^[12]

Selected publications

• Lahariya, Chandrakant; Sundararaman, T.; Ved, Rajani R.; Adithyan, G. S.; Graeve, Hilde De; Jhalani, Manoj; Bekedam, Henk (1 February 2020). "What makes primary healthcare facilities functional, and increases the utilization? Learnings from 12 case studies". Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. 9 (2): 539–546. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1240_19 . PMC   7114016 . PMID   32318378.
• Lahariya, Chandrakant; Roy, Bijit; Shukla, Abhay; Chatterjee, Mirai; Graeve, Hilde De; Jhalani, Manoj; Bekedam, Henk (1 January 2020). "Community action for health in India: evolution, lessons learnt and ways forward to achieve universal health coverage". WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health. 9 (1): 82–91. doi: 10.4103/2224-3151.283002 . PMID   32341227. S2CID   216594708.
• Lahariya, Chandrakant (1 April 2014). "A brief history of vaccines & vaccination in India". Indian Journal of Medical Research. 139 (4): 491–511. PMC   4078488 . PMID   24927336.
• Lahariya, Chandrakant; Paul, Vinod K. (1 November 2010). "Burden, Differentials, and Causes of Child Deaths in India". The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 77 (11): 1312–1321. doi:10.1007/s12098-010-0185-z. PMID   20830536. S2CID   3441068.
• Mishra, Ashok; Mishra, Subodh; Jain, Pankaj; Bhadoriya, Rahul Singh; Mishra, Rakesh; Lahariya, Chandrakant (September 2008). "Measles related complications and the role of vitamin A supplementation". The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 75 (9): 887–890. doi:10.1007/s12098-008-0089-3. PMID   18568439. S2CID   27703322.
• Lahariya, Chandrakant (2007). "Global eradication of polio: the case for "finishing the job"". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 85 (6): 487–492. doi:10.2471/BLT.06.037457. PMC   2636341 . PMID   17639247.
• Lahariya, Chandrakant; Pradhan, SK (March 2007). "Can Southeast Asia eradicate yaws by 2010? Some lessons from the Yaws Eradication Programme of India". The National Medical Journal of India. 20 (2): 81–6. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.603.3075 . PMID   17802987.
• Lahariya, C; Pradhan, SK (December 2006). "Emergence of chikungunya virus in Indian subcontinent after 32 years: A review". Journal of Vector Borne Diseases. 43 (4): 151–60. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.529.3451 . PMID   17175699.
• Lahariya, C; Sharma, AK; Pradhan, SK (April 2006). "Avian flu and possible human pandemic" (PDF). Indian Pediatrics. 43 (4): 317–25. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.455.4985 . PMID   16651670.

References

1. "New virus from China not a cause for alarm: Health expert". thepatriot.in. 22 December 2023.
2. "'Till We Win': Book on Covid-19 by AIIMS Director to hit stands this month". hindustantimes. 2 November 2020.
3. "India's medical experts come together to pen a book titled 'Till We Win: India's Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic'". Mumbai Mirror. 24 November 2020.
4. Subcommittee on Introduction of Hib Vaccine in Universal Immunization Program, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization, India (November 2009). "NTAGI subcommittee recommendations on Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) vaccine introduction in India" (PDF). Indian Pediatrics. 46 (11): 945–54. PMID   19955578.
5. "Awardee Details". ICMR.
6. Ioannidis, John P. A.; Boyack, Kevin W.; Baas, Jeroen (16 October 2020). "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". PLOS Biology. 18 (10): e3000918. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918 . PMC   7567353 . PMID   33064726.
7. "Indian Researchers in Stanford University's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists List for the Year 2020". insights2techinfo.com. 23 October 2021.
8. "Till We Win".
9. Dr. V. K. Paul, Professor
10. "Dr. V.K. Paul". AIIMS NEW.
11. "The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 77, Issue 3 - Springer". link.springer.com.^{[ verification needed ]}
12. Lahariya, Chandrakant; Paul, Vinod K. (November 2010). "Burden, Differentials, and Causes of Child Deaths in India". The Indian Journal of Pediatrics. 77 (11): 1312–1321. doi:10.1007/s12098-010-0185-z. PMID   20830536. S2CID   3441068.^{[ non-primary source needed ]}