Professor
Public Health Foundation of India and Centre for Chronic Disease Control, India
Dr. Sailesh Mohan is a Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and the Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries (CCCI) - PHFI’s Centre of Excellence for Chronic Conditions. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Secretary Centre for Chronic Disease Control, and the India Site Director for the HBNU US-NIH-Fogarty Global Health Training Program for Postdoctoral Scholars. He is involved in chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) research, teaching and training. He leads various NCD research projects and current work is focused on: (a) developing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable comprehensive community and health system-based approaches to hypertension and diabetes prevention and control as well as multimorbidity (b) improving food systems by providing policy-makers with interdisciplinary scientific evidence on how food systems can deliver nutritious foods sustainably and equitably, (c) cohort studies to advance understanding of cardiometabolic diseases and (d) training/mentoring junior researchers through training programs to undertake research and improve NCD prevention and control in India and other low-middle income countries.