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Dr J.S. Thakur
graduated in Medicine in 1989 and holds M.D. degree in Community Medicine
from IG Medical College, Shimla and Diplomate of National Board (DNB) in Family Medicine. He
has also done a national course on Burden of disease studies and IARC
International Course on Cancer Epidemiology.
Dr. Thakur
has more than 15 years of public health experience working with health
services, teaching and research. Before joining WHO India-Country Office on
14th April 2009, he was Associate Professor at the School of Public Health,
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh,
teaching Master in Public Health (MPH) and MD courses. He is a Fellow of the
Indian Public Health Association and Indian Association of Preventive and
Social Medicine and a member of several professional bodies.
His main professional interests are control of Non
communicable diseases, Health promotion, Disease surveillance and Capacity
building. He has worked as key investigator in many NCD related projects
including Chandigarh Healthy Heart Action Project
(CHHAP), which have been up scaled to State NCD control programme,
developing Models for District NCD control programme,
healthy workplaces and health promoting schools for prevention of NCDs, population based screening for cervical and breast
cancer and Formulation of clinical management guidelines for cardiovascular
diseases for NPDCS.
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