Monika Arora

Biography

Dr. Dr. Monika Arora is a public health scientist working in the area of preventing NCDs through health promotion and health advocacy. She is the Director of the Health Promotion Division and Additional Professor at Public Health Foundation of India. She has been conducting large scale Group Randomized Trials and has expertise in designing multi-component interventions for behaviour change in population in multiple settings.Dr. Arora has over a decade of experience in managing large community trials with adolescents in India, including activities related to health literacy, health communication, community mobilization and training youth, teachers, health care personnel and law enforcers on various public health themes and legislation. Dr. Arora was one of the Commissioners of The Lancet Report “Our future: a Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing” published in May 2016. Dr. Arora has been honoured with the Best Practices Award in Global Health in 2011 by the prestigious Global Health Council, for demonstrating best practice example in the area of health promotion among youth and community, especially focusing on preventing NCDs. She has also been awarded with WHO Director General’s World No Tobacco Day Award in 2012. She has extensive experience in policy research, epidemiological research and qualitative research in the area of adolescent health and prevention and control of NCDs.She has been recipient of Research Grants from National Institutes of Health (USA), World Health Organization(WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA), International Development Research Center (IDRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome Trust (UK)and Government of India (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare). She has been instrumental in conducting and publishing successes of school health interventions on tobacco control and tobacco prevention in India. She completed her M.Sc. (child development) from Lady Irwin College, New Delhi (Delhi University), India. She has been trained in Epidemiology from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and also completed her M.Sc. (Public Health) from LSHTM. She has also been trained in Health Promotion and Tobacco Control through various national and international courses. She completed herPh.D. in Health Promotion (Department of Cardiology) from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. She is known nationally and internationally for her contributions to tobacco control and NCD prevention in India.She serves as expert on various government and international committees including Technical Resource Group formed by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Adolescent Health, expert committee on various tobacco control issues and ad hoc working group on Implementation, Monitoring and Accountability for Ending Childhood Obesity formed by World Health Organization.

Research Interest

Public health