Nitish Dogra

Biography

Dr. Nitish Dogra has done his MBBS and MD from University of Delhi. He has also received a Master of Public Health degree from the world renowned Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States. Subsequently he has worked in several coveted institutions including JHU, INCLEN and TERI. He had earlier served as Assistant Professor at IIHMR, Delhi from 2009-2014. In addition he was selected for a Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship for 2013-14 by the United States Department of State and the Government of India. During this period he was based at JHU as a Visiting Faculty. He convened the Understanding Climate and Health Associations in India (UCHAI) training workshop in 2015 which was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Government. He has brought out the edited volume Climate Change and Disease Dynamics in India, the first such book on the topic with 28 authors across India, United States, Belgium and New Zealand. Dr. Dogra has also worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) as consultant, temporary adviser and project principal investigator at different points of time. In August 2014, he delivered on request, an invited commentary at the Conference on Health & Climate at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. This was the first global ministerial level meeting on the subject where he was one of three delegates from India. Besides, his innovation linking a community based air quality monitoring system with social media has been featured on BBC and Times of India, amongst other places.

Research Interest

Healthcare