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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.

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