| Overview |
| Biography of the Director |
| Dr. D. Prabhakaran, MD, DM, MSc |
 Executive DirectorCentre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) Secretariat of Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the developing countries (IC Health), New Delhi Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Program Director for the Fogarty International centre Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi |
| Nodal officer for Sikkim in implementing the National Programme under NPDCS programme, Government of India |
| Visiting Scholar Mike Rosenbloom Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Cardiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
| Biography |
| Dr. Prabhakaran has worked to establish CCDC as a leading center for research in non communicable diseases with a strong emphasis on fundamental, translational and clinical research involving Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. He is a cardiologist and epidemiologist by training. |
| Till recently he was the Additional Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He received his MD (Medicine) and DM (Cardiology) degrees from AIIMS. He has done MSc in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University, Canada and has a career commitment to preventive cardiology. |
| He has been involved in several major international and national research studies including the INTERHEART Study, the CREATE Trial, Indian Council of Medical Research commissioned national case-control study on Acute myocardial infarction, British Heart Foundation funded projects on low birth weight and migrant Gujaratis, Wellcome trust funded impact of intra-country migration on CHD, the NIH sponsored STICH trial and the India Health Study. In addition, he is involved with many community based prevention programmes. He has recently been awarded the prestigious NHLBI-Ovations Grant. |
| He is Member of various national and international organizations like Scientific Council of the Section on Epidemiology and Prevention of the World Heart Federation, Cardiological Society of India, Association of Physicians of India, Indian Council of Medical Research’s Project Review Committee on Cardiology and Indian Council of Medical Research’s Advisory Committee on Hypertension. |
| He is a member of several international bodies, is on the review board of national and international journals and is a reviewer for national and international research funding agencies such as the Wellcome Trust. He is also a referee for scientific paper assessments for National Medical Journal of India, Indian Heart Journal, Journal of the National Academy of Medical Sciences, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Hypertension and International Journal of Cardiology. He is an associate editor of JECH which is a BMJ group journal. He has more than 150 publications in high impact prestigious journals including the JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, USA etc. |