Economic And Health Impact Assessment Of Heat Adaptation Action:
Case Studies From India
Members of Advisory Committee
Centre for Community Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
He is ranked among the top 2% researcher globally by Elsevier for last three years and has more than 360 publications with an h-index of 61. He is the Faculty-in-charge of Clinical Epidemiology unit (CEU) and Member, Deans Research Committee at AIIMS ND. He chairs the Research Review Committee, AIIMS Gorakhpur & is a Member Research Review Committee, AIIMS Madurai. He is a Member School Board of School of Health Sciences, IGNOU, Centre for Community Health and Social Sciences, JNU., School for Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad.
He heads the Centre of Excellence under National Programme for Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH), Was Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) ICMR-NIREH, Bhopal, 2019-2022. He heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Capacity Development and Research in Community based NCD Prevention and Control. He has worked with WHO in NCD prevention and control and provided technical assistance to Health Ministries of Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, East Timor. He currently leads the MINErVA network that provides technical support to SRS-verbal autopsy surveys. He is a Member WHO/UNDESA Covid Mortality Technical Advisory Group as well as Member WHO Working Group on Influenza Burden Estimation.
He has been awarded Fellowship of IAPSM, IPHA and NAMS. He has received multiple awards including ICMR- BC Srivastava Award (2000 ); ICMR- MK Seshadri Award (2008), IAPSM-Dr. Harcharan Singh Oration (2015), ICMR-Dr. PN Raju Oration (2014), IPHA_Dr. BC Dasgupta Oration (2018) and SEAPHEIN Public Health Leadership Award 2019.
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Former Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Founder Advisor, Global Change Programme & SYLFF-JU
Professor of Gender & Development, School of Global Development
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Nitya Rao is Professor, Gender and Development at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom and Director of the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. She has worked as a researcher and advocate in the field of women’s rights, gendered wellbeing, and justice, with a focus on food, nutrition, health and livelihood security. She has published extensively on the
gendered changes in agrarian relations, migration and livelihoods, especially in contexts of climatic variability and economic precarity. She has consistently engaged with policy and practice, at both the global and local levels. Apart from supporting networks of women farmers in India, she served on the Global Advisory Committee of the United Nations Girls Education Initiative
for over a decade and on the Steering Group of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the Committee on World Food Security for two terms. She is currently Commissioner, EAT-Lancet 2.0 on healthy and sustainable diets, member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub, member of the UKRI International Strategic Advisory Group, and External Adviser, People-Centered Food Systems Project at Columbia University.
Former Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India
Dr Madhavan Nair Rajeevan is a distinguished climate scientist with over 38 years of research experience in weather and climate science. Currently serving as the Vice Chancellor of Atria University at Bengaluru, Dr. Rajeevan left an indelible mark during his tenure as Secretary to the
Government of India in the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Dr Rajeevan’s research interests included the variability of the Indian monsoon, seasonal forecasting of the monsoon, climate change and extreme
weather events, underlining his commitment to the advancement of meteorological sciences. He is a Fellow of all three science academies of India and an Academician of the International Academy of
Astronautics. Dr Rajeevan is currently a member of the Research Committee of the UN/World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in Geneva. He has also been awarded the coveted Sir Gilbert Walker Gold Medal for lifetime achievement by the Indian Meteorological Society. His honours include a reference book on the” South Asian Summer Monsoon”, published by Elsevier.
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Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
Pune, India
Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll is a Climate Scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. He did his Ph.D. in Ocean and Atmospheric Dynamics from Hokkaido University, Japan.
Koll has made breakthrough contributions to the research, monitoring, and modeling of climate and extreme weather events over the Indo-Pacific region. His work has advanced the scientific understanding of monsoon floods and droughts, terrestrial and marine heatwaves, and cyclones—facilitating the food, water, and economic security of the region.
Koll is a Lead Author of the IPCC Reports and the former Chair of the Indian Ocean Region Panel. He actively collaborates with citizen science networks, local governments, and media to bring science to society.
Koll received the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (National Science Award), the highest recognition in the field of science, technology and innovation in India, from the President of India in 2024. He was conferred a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and was awarded the AGU Devendra Lal Medal for outstanding research in Earth and Space Sciences in 2022. He is among the top 2% scientists ranked by Stanford University. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Kavli Fellowship in 2015 and the NRC Senior Research Fellowship in 2018. The Indian Meteorological Society felicitated him with the Young Scientist Award in 2016 for his research on the changes in the Monsoon.
Indian Economic Services Unit
Institute of Economic Growth, India
Vikram Dayal is a Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has been using the R software in teaching quantitative economics to diverse audiences and is the author of three popular Springer publications titled 'An Introduction to R for Quantitative Economics: Graphing, Simulating and Computing', 'Quantitative Economics with R: A Data Science Approach', and 'Demystifying Causal Inference: Public Policy Applications with R'. He has published research on a range of environmental and developmental issues, from outdoor and indoor air pollution in Goa, India, to tigers and Prosopis juliflora in Ranthambore National Park. He studied economics in India and the USA and received his doctoral degree from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.