Harshad Thakur Diploma in Business Management (DBM) (Wellingkar Institute of Management); MD (Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital); MBBS (Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital)
Director, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, Delhi · India
Editorial leadership for International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ISSN 2690-0904
Research interests
- Research Interest Of Dr. Thakur Includes Any Area Which Falls Under Broad Spectrum Of Public Health
- Epidemiology. He Has Carried Out Research Projects Under Health Financing
- Workforce Analysis
- Development Of Quality Clinical Indicators
- User Fees
- Menstrual Hygiene Etc. He Has Also Carried Out Research Studies For Various Disease Conditions Like Tuberculosis
- Leishmaniasis
- Diabetes
- Effects Of Nuclear Radiation
- Etc
Biography
Dr. Harshad Thakur, MD, is Director of the National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, Delhi, India. He completed his MBBS and MD in Preventive and Social Medicine from Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, and earned a Diploma in Business Management from Wellingkar Institute of Management. His career includes seven years in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at KEM Hospital, followed by a distinguished tenure at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), where he served as Associate Professor from 2000 and Professor from 2008, chairing the Centre for Health Policy, Planning & Management and the Centre for Public Health, and founding the MPH program in Social Epidemiology in 2008. His research expertise spans tuberculosis control, public-private partnerships in health, and social epidemiology, exemplified by his most-cited publication, "Status and challenges for tuberculosis control in India – Stakeholders' perspective" (2021, cited 50 times), and he founded the Tuberculosis Interest Group at TISS and serves as a founding member of SAATHI (Social Advancement Through Health Initiative).
Selected publications
- Status and challenges for tuberculosis control in India – Stakeholders' perspective 2021 cited 50×
- Efficacy of telerehabilitation for spine pain during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown: a retrospective propensity score-matched analysis 2022 cited 4×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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