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There are very few medical doctors in Nepal practicing preventive medicine (public health). My interest in public health grew in early 1998 when I worked in a remote village in Nepal. Personal and environmental hygiene was so poor that diarrhoeal diseases were very common. Investigation of outbreaks of diarrhoeal diseases, pyrexia of unknown origin etc. exposed me to Epidemiological studies.

As the company I worked for employed more than 2500 employees, it was my responsibility to take care of them and prevent them from developing work related health problems. That is how I developed interest in occupational and environmental medicine, which led to Masters Degree study in that field in 2000. My research work on occupational lung cancer was the first study in Occupational Medicine in Nepal.

Occupational and environmental health related studies I have performed are situation analysis of small scale and household industries in Nepal, studies on child labour, studies on health effects of environmental noise on general population and traffic police personnel, effect of indoor air pollution on housewives and small children, role of cooking stoves intervention on their health, environmental and health effects of outdoor air pollution etc. I have also assisted the government to make occupational injuries recording and reporting format and to develop procedural guidelines to analyze occupational health risks in small scale and household industries in Nepal.

I am also involved in activities/ studies on violence and injuries prevention in Nepal since 2006 as a National Consultant for WHO/Ministry of Health and Population. My PhD work was partly based on those activities conducted from 2007 to 2009.

My major contributions to injury prevention in Nepal are the 1) Development of National injury and violence recording and reporting format, 2)Development of draft National Action Plan for prevention and control of violence and injury in Nepal, 3) Development of training manual for doctors and health workers for Prevention and Control of Violence, Injuries, and Disabilities, 4) Development of National Strategies for Prevention and Control of Violence, Injuries, and Disabilities in Nepal, and 5) Various research activities.

I am involved in research on violence against women (VAW), namely domestic violence and trafficking of women and girls. WG Trafficking in Nepal was also a theme for my Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Department of Gender Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden.

I am the only Graduate Member (Grad IOSH) of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, UK from Nepal. I am also elected as International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) National Secretary for Nepal for the tenure 2009-2012.

As social service is an integral part of our life, I am involved in a non profit and non political organization working for the education and welfare of the Nepalese students “Worldwide Nepalese Students’ Organisation –Nepal (WNSO- Nepal). I am the Founder President and Chief Patron of WNSO-Nepal.

Above all, I am working as an Associate Professor of Community Medicine at Kathmandu Medical College where I teach undergraduate and post graduate medical students. Beside that I also supervise graduate students from different countries as a local supervisor. Till now I have guided students from Linkoping University, Sweden; University of Oslo, Norway; Stony Brook School of Medicine, USA and Yale University, USA. I am also an Adjunct Faculty Member for Kent State University College of Public Health, Kent, USA.

If you are interested in developing collaborative projects with me in Nepal (mainly in the field of occupational and environmental health, OHS, gender studies, diabetology, injury and violence prevention) please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.

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