Chandrakant Lahariya

Chandrakant Lahariya is an Indian medical doctor, public health & policy expert and writer.

Chandrakant Lahariya
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Delhi, University of Geneva, Pasteur Institute, Paris
Years active1998–present
Notable workTill We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 A Review of Preventive and Social Medicine, 2008

Lahariya is the author of the book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic.

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 introduction in the country.[1][2]

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.[3]

In October 2020, in a study conducted by Stanford University and published in the reputed PLoS Biology, Lahariya was listed amongst in top 2% of researchers globally, in the fields of pediatrics and public health.[4] He was, once again, included in the list of Top 2% researcher globally, in 2021.

Books and writing

Lahariya is the author of book Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic, with Randeep Guleria of AIIMS, New Delhi and Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College, Vellore.[5]

In 2009-10, Lahariya was the Guest editor (along with Dr Vinod Kumar Paul, the then Professor of pediatrics at AIIMS, New Delhi and now the Member, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India) of a special series on child survival in India.[6][7][8] This series was published in the Indian Journal of Pediatrics and had contribution from leading Indian health experts including Prema Ramachandran, Deoki Nandan, Prasanna K Hota, & Shiv Lal. Lahariya had co-authored a few articles including one with Dr Vinod Kumar Paul of NITI Aayog.[9]

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. "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.
  2. 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Awardee Details". ICMR.
  4. 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.
  5. "Till We Win".
  6. Dr. V. K. Paul, Professor
  7. "Dr. V.K. Paul". AIIMS NEW.
  8. "The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 77, Issue 3 - Springer". link.springer.com.
  9. 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.
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