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Prof.K. Srinath Reddy is Founder (Past) President of the Public Health Foundation of India, where he now is an Honorary Distinguished Professor. He formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Under his leadership, PHFI has established five Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs) to advance multi-disciplinary public health education, research, health technologies and implementation support for strengthening health systems. He was appointed as the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in (2009-13) and presently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard (2014-2023). He holds advisory positions in several national and international bodies. He has over 570 scientific publications and published a book ‘Make Health in India: Reaching A Billion Plus’. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Emory, Sydney Universities and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was President of the World Heart Federation (2013-15). He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2005. He is also an Advisor to the Governments of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh on Health with the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
Prof. Reddy chaired the High level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage constituted by the Planning Commission of India (2010-11) and is Co-Chair of the Health Thematic Group of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served on several Technical Committees of the World Health Organisation and the Indian Council of Medical Research and had edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years.
His contributions to public health have been recognized through several awards and honours. They include: WHO Director General’s Award for Outstanding Global Leadership in Tobacco Control (World Health Assembly, 2003), Padma Bhushan (Presidential Honour, India, 2005), Queen Elizabeth Medal (Royal Society for Health Promotion, UK, 2005), Luther Terry Medal for Leadership in Tobacco Control (American Cancer Society, 2009), Membership of the US National Academies (Institute of Medicine, 2005), Fellowship of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2009), Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health, UK (2009).
He was awarded Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) conferred by University of Aberdeen, Scotland (2011), Dr. NTR Medical University, India (2011), University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2012), and University of Glasgow, Scotland (2013) and Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa) conferred by the Jodhpur National University, India (2013), Doctor of Science (Medicine), Honoris Causa, University of London, UK (2014), Doctor of Science, ILBS University, India (2019) and Doctor of Sciences awarded by the Maulana Azad University (2022). He was the first Indian to be elected as International Member of the National Academy of Medicine, USA.
Prof. K. Srinath Reddy’s CV