Public Health and Social Aspects : Some Selected Essays (English, Hardcover, Col. P. K. Dutta)
Book Details
Publication Year: 1998
Contributors
Author: Col. P. K. Dutta
Author Info: Professor (Colonel) Pranab Kumar Dutta is a specialist in Preventive and Social Medicine for more than last three decades. He served in Army for 30 years and held various key appointments including a tenure as an Associate Professor at AFMC, Pune. He joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as a post doctoral fellow and was awarded Ph.D in 1981. He was a post graduate teacher of Poona and Bombay Universities and has acted as examiner of M.B.B.S., DPH, M.D., M.Phil and Ph.D of 12 Indian Universities besides National Board of Examination for DNB. He has written one book on Malaria entitled “Study of NMEP: A Systems Approach” and seventy professional articles in various national and international journals. He has also presented about fifty scientific papers in different conferences in India and abroad. He had acted as an Advisor to WHO and Health Consultant to a few national and international health agencies including DANIDA. Dr. Dutta is currently associated with a number of professional bodies end served as President of Indian Public Health Association for one term in 1994-95. He is a member of Advisory Board of a few professional journals. He is invited as an Advisor by UPSC from time to time. His professional interest centres around control of various communicable and non communicable diseases, health administration and various aspects of different national health programmes including planning, execution and their evaluation. Col. Dutta served earlier as Director, Health Programme Unit of Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority, responsible for health care of 2 million slum dwellers before joining the School of Health Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University as it’s founder Director. At present he is Professor in the same University. He is a widely travelled person and had been to a number of countries on lecture cum study tours.
