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There are very few medical doctors in Nepal practicing preventive medicine (public health). My interest in public health grew in 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 lead to Masters Degree in that field in 2002. 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. I have also assisted the government to make occupational injuries recording and reporting format.

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 is partly based on those activities conducted from 2007 to 2009. My basic contribution to injury prevention in Nepal is the development of injury and violence recording and reporting format, development of training manual for doctors and health workers, conduction of training programs for different stakeholders, and various research activities. We have received a Swedish Research Council International Planning Grant for 2010 for the project: Hidden Issue- Women and Girls Trafficking in Nepal. So our next plan is to work on VAW.

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.

Above all, I am working as an Asst. Professor of Community Medicine at Kathmandu Medical College where I teach 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 for Kent State University College of Public Health, Kent, USA.

If you are interested in developing collaborative projects with me in Nepal, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.

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