Bishan Swarup Garg

Dr. Bishan S Garg, MD, Ph.D., is secretary of the Kasturba Health Society, India, and previous dean of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), India. He is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and the director of the Dr. Sushila Nayar School of Public Health, MGIMS. He is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Community-Based Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. He received the Best Teacher Award from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, India, in 2005 in recognition of his academic achievements and contributions. He completed numerous fellowships, including a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, a fellowship from the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), fellowship of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM), fellowship of Indian Public Health Association, and fellowship of Indian Society for Malaria and Other Communicable Diseases. He was also bestowed with the Sir Shriram Memorial Award by NAMS in 2008, a Dhanwantari Oration in 2004, a Dr. Harcharan Singh Oration in 2007 from the IAPSM, and an Indian Epidemiology Association Oration in 2014. He has written four books, five book chapters, and twenty-two monographs on priority public health issues. He has also published more than 180 research papers in international and national journals. He was president of IAPSM in 2002. Dr. Garg has been awarded more than eighty research projects by various funding organizations. He has served as a consultant to WHO, UNICEF, the Department for International Development (DFID), and various other international and national agencies on issues of public health concern.