Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Rajib Dasgupta is a public health physician and professor at the Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. With three decades of experience in public health services and academia, he brings together the optimal mix of epidemiology, social sciences, programme management, research, and policy engagement. He works in multi-country multi-disciplinary teams, and many of the projects he is involved in uses mixed-methods approaches. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Key Technology Partner at University of Technology, Sydney, and an Erasmus+ fellow at Tampere University. He handled key responsibilities related to COVID-19 and G20 media and communications. Widely published in national and international journals, he was Managing Editor of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine and is currently the Editor of the Indian Journal of Public Health. He is a regular commentator on public health matters in national and international electronic media and a columnist in leading national newspapers.