Dr  Professor Rajesh Nair

Public Health Foundation of India
15th Floor, Tower-1, AIPL Business Club
Sector-62, Gurugram-122002
Email: rajesh.nair@phfi.org
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+91 981****803

Academic Qualification

PhD, MPH, FRSPH

Position held

Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Additional Professor
Professor cum Director

Publications

1. Negandhi H, Tiwari R, Sharma A, Nair R, Zodpey S, Allam RR. Oruganti Rapid assessment of facilitators and barriers related to the acceptance, challenges and community perception of daily regimen for treating tuberculosis in India. Global Health Action. 2017; 10: 1-10.
2. S. P. Shah, R. Nair, P. P. Shah, D. K. Modi, S. A. Desai, L. Desai. Improving quality of life with new menstrual hygiene practices among adolescent tribal girls in rural Gujarat. Reproductive Health Matters 2013; 21(41):1-9.
3. K. V. Tran, G.S. Azhar, R. Nair, K. Knowlton, A. Jaiswal, P. Sheffield, D. Mavalankar, Jeremy Hess. A Cross-Sectional, Randomized Cluster Sample Survey of Household Vulnerability to Extreme Heat among Slum Dwellers in Ahmedabad, India. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2013; 10: 2515-2543.
4. Nair R, Nakun AK, Nair SS. Socio-demographic profile of Leprosy patients and associated Stigma. A Journal of Demography, Department of Demography, University of Kerala. 2012-14; 30(32):112-120.
5. R. Nair, S.S. Nair: Is Behaviour Change Communication an Effective Strategy for Increasing Immunization Coverage? Advance Tropical Medicine and Public Health International. 2012 Volume 2(2): 40 -60.

Experience

Reproductive Health
Health Systems
Mental Health

Area of Specialization

Public Health
Health Psychology

Membership of other Professional Associations

Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, U.K.- membership No. 010674Indian Association of Applied Psychologists, Lifetime me
Member of Faculty of Public Health, U.K.- membership No. 51170
Member of UK Public Health Association, U.K.- membership No. 8038
Member of John Snow Society, U.K. - membership No. 1933
Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), Life membership

Professor Rajesh Nair has more than 26 years of work experience in research, academics, and practice. He has a Ph.D. in Health Psychology and has also received Public Health training at Institute of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, U.K., supported by PHFI-UKC
Wellcome Trust Fellowship. Rajesh has also undergone a short, intensive
Fellowship Program on Public Health and Program Delivery at Sydney Medical School,
University of Sydney under Australian Leadership Award Fellowship (ALAF).
He has worked at various positions at State Governments of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India for nearly ten years. He has worked as Director, AIBAS, and AICP at Amity University Haryana, Gurugram. Currently, he is working as Director - Projects at Public Health Foundation of India, globally 2nd ranked public health institution. He has over thirty-seven publications in peer reviewed international & national journals and nine completed public health research projects to his credit.