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Rajib Dasgupta

Rajib Dasgupta

Professor (Dr.) Rajib Dasgupta
Rajib Dasgupta
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences
School of Social Sciences
Room No
204
Off. Phone
+91-11-2670-4420
Residence
+919811106025
Email
rdasgupta@mail.jnu.ac.in, dasgupta.jnu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
CV
Personal files
RAJIB DASGUPTA [JNU] 2022.pdf
Qualifications

MBBS, MPH, PhD

Areas of Interest/Specialization

COVID-19, Epidemiology, Nutrition, Child Health, Vaccines, Health Policy, Urban Health, Non-communicable Diseases, Qualitative Research

Experience

Chairperson [25.07.2020 to 14.09.2022]

Professor [16.10.2011 till date]

Chairperson [22.07.2014 to 21.07.2016]

Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU

​Concurrent Faculty, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU

Chairperson, University Sports Committee [18.02.2014 - 17.02.2016]

Deputy Health Officer, Epidemiology Division & Public Health Laboratory, Municipal Corporation of Delhi [06.12.2003 – 15.10.2003]

Awards & Honours
  • Fulbright Senior Research Fellow [2010-11] and Visiting Associate Professor, Global Diseases Epidemiology and Control [GDEC], Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Key Technology Partner Visiting Fellow 2016. Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • One Health Poultry Hub. Co-Investigator. Global Challenges Research Fund - UK Research and Innovation
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Labour Migration across Healthcare Borders in Northern South Asia. Co-Investigator. Novo Nordisk Foundation
  • Developing Community-Led Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance: Building a One Health Approach in Low and Middle Income Countries. Co-Investigator . UKRI Challenge Cluster Grant
  • Integrated nutrition, education and environmental interventions through networks of schools and anganwadis in India. Co-Principal Investigator. Medical Research Council UK
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Access in India Program. Co-Investigator. IAVI India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Das Gupta M, Dasgupta R, Kugananthan P, Rao V, Somanathan TV, Tewari KN (2019). Flies without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on Improving India’s Municipal Public Health Services, The Journal of Development Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1605053
  • Dasgupta R, Sharma S, Sharma N, Banerjee K, Haran EGP, Muliyel JP, Salunke S, Masoodi MA, Haldar P, Bahl S, Bhatnagar P, Joshi S, Arora NK. Successful switch (tOPV to bOPV) in India: Tribute to a resilient health system. Vaccine 37 (2019) 2394–2400.
  • Chugh Sachdeva R, Mondkar J, Shanbhag S, Manuhar Sinha M, Khan A, Dasgupta R, Israel-Ballard K (2019). Understanding Barriers and Facilitators for Human Milk Banking Among Service Providers, Mothers, and Influencers of Neonates Admitted at Two Health Facilities in a Metropolitan City in India. Breastfeeding Medicine, 14(2):694-701. doi: 10.1089/bfm.2018.0177.
  • Rasanathan K, Bennett S, Atkins V, Beschel R, Carrasquilla G, Charles J, Dasgupta R, Emerson K et al (2017). Governing Multisectoral Action for Health in Low- and Middle-income Countries. PLoS Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002285.
  • Nambiar D, Dasgupta R, Sunadararaman T, Ganesan P, Gupta S  (2016). Reflections on Participation and Knowledge-making as part of India’s National Urban Health Mission Technical Resource Group Recommendation Exercise. International Journal of Health Services. Pii: 0020731416661496.
  • Arora NK, Pillai R, Dasgupa R, Garg P (2014). Whole-of-society Monitoring Framework for Sugar, Salt, and Fat Consumption and Non-communicable Disease in India. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Oct 21. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12555.
  • Rentmeester C, Dasgupta R, Feemster KA, Packard R (2014). Coercion and Polio Eradication Efforts in Moradabad. Human Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics, 10(4).
  • Dasgupta R (2012). Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of its Re-emergence. Orient Blackswan, New Delhi.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • Deshmukh V, John S, Pakhare A, Dasgupta R, Joshi A, Chaturvedi S, Goswami K, Das M, Mukhopadhyay R, Singh R, Shrivastava P, Dhingra B, Bingler S, Hill BP and Arora NK (2022). Barriers in reaching newborns and infants through home visits: A qualitative study using nexus planning framework. Front. Public Health 10:956422. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.956422
  • Mitchell J, Cooke P, Ahorlu C, Arjyal A, Baral S, Carter L, Dasgupta R, Fieroze F, Fonseca-Braga M, Huque R, Lewycka S, Kalpana P, Saxena D, Tomley F, Tsekleves E, Vu Thi Quynh G, King R. Community engagement: The key to tackling Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across a One Health context? Glob Public Health. 2021 Dec 9:1-18. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2021.2003839. PMID: 34882505.
  • Dasgupta R, Mishra P, Yadav K. COVID‑19 Vaccination and the Power of Rumors: Why we Must “Tune in”. Indian Journal of Public Health 2021; 65:206-8.
  • Dasgupta R, Tomley F, Alders R, Barbuddhe S, Kotwani A. Adopting an intersectoral, One Health approach in India: The time has come for One Health Committees. Indian Journal of Medical Research 2021, 153:281-6.
  • Krishnan A, Dasgupta R. Science, Policy, People, and Public Health: What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us? Editorial, Indian Journal Public Health 2020;64:S87-9.
Patents (if any)

Not applicable

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.