Professor Narendra K. Arora
Executive Director - International Clinical Epidemiology Network, India
Narendra Kumar Arora, MD, MMSc, is Executive Director of The INCLEN Trust International, Executive Director for Child Health Research Nutrition Research Initiative and Adjunct Research Professor at Public Health Foundation of India.
He holds a MD from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India and received a MMSc in Clinical Epidemiology and Bio-Statistics from the University of Newcastle, Australia under the INCLEN Program. A faculty member since 1983, Narendra Arora was Professor of Paediatrics Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences from 2004 – 2007.
Professor Arora is a renowned public health expert in India and is extensively involved in policy-making, program planning, implementation and evaluation of public health programs at both national and international level. He has contributed in the development of training and health education tools for primary health care and has participated in various public health education programs.
Professor Arora's research interests include public health and nutrition, child and maternal health, policy advocacy, program evaluation, health research, capacity building, research priority setting, clinical epidemiology and paediatrics among other areas. He has been involved as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator in over 60 major research projects commissioned by national institutes such as DST, ICMR, GOI-MOH and AIIMS as well as by international agencies such as WHO, UNICEF, USAID, World Bank, INCLEN and has over 150 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals to his credit. Narendra Arora has been awarded numerous prestigious distinctions for academic excellence and research endeavours.
Last updated: 1 September 2010