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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
Full CV
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
  • Erasmus+ Visiting Fellow 2023. Department of Health Sciences, Tampere University, Finland
International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • One Health Poultry Hub. Co-Investigator. Global Challenges Research Fund - UK Research and Innovation
  • Economic and Health Impact Assessment of Heat Adaptation Action: Case studies from India. Co-Investigator. Wellcome Trust. 2023-28
  • 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
  • COVID-19 Vaccine Access in India Program. Co-Investigator. IAVI India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Dasgupta R, Mishra P. Locating “community” in antimicrobial resistance governance. WHO South‑East Asia J Public Health 2024;13:1-4.
  • Roy P, Dasgupta R. Making sense of the triple elimination initiative against mother‑to‑child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B in the Indian context. Indian J Public Health 2024;68:1-2.
  • Dasgupta R, Roy P. National Action Plan for Dog-Mediated Rabies Elimination: A One Health Approach to Catalytic Response is Key to India Achieving the Target by 2030. Indian Journal of Community Medicine 48(5):p 637-638, Sep–Oct 2023. | DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_554_23.
  • Mishra P, Golaviya A, Panchal K, Hinsu A, Yadav K, Fournié G, Barnett T, Koringa P, Paleja HUI, Dasgupta R. Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 and the Associated Lockdown on the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Poultry Products in Gujarat, India: A Qualitative Study. Poultry. 2023; 2(3):395-410. https://doi.org/10.3390/poultry2030029
  • 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.
  • 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. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34882505.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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