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Dr. Kaushik Bharati

UNESCO

India

Academic Editor

Biography

Dr. Kaushik Bharati is a Health Policy Consultant at UNESCO, New Delhi and former Consultant at WHO. He obtained his PhD in Physiology with specialization in Vaccinology from the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India and post-doctoral fellowship from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, specializing in Immunology and Molecular Biology. He was formerly a Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi and a Senior Program Officer at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI),
NCR Delhi. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore. Besides academics, he also has a rich consultancy experience, having worked for Global Health Strategies, New York, USA; Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France; Policy Cures, Sydney, Australia; the Science Advisory Board, Virginia, USA; and the Initiative against Diarrheal and Enteric diseases in Asia (IDEA), Lyon, France. His major research areas include Virology, Vaccinology, and Public Health. He has published 119 papers in reputed national and international journals and has also co-authored a book entitled “Basic Concepts in Immunology”. He has delivered numerous invited lectures at national and international conferences, including UK, USA, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, Philippines, and Pakistan. He is currently on the Editorial Board of 34 journals from India, Sri Lanka, UK, USA, Canada, UAE, and Pakistan. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of the South Asian Association of Physiologists (SAAP) Bulletin, Colombo, Sri Lanka and Chairman of the SAAP Research and Publication Subcommittee. He is also Editorin- Chief of the Journal of Clinical Genetics and Genomics, Windsor, Berkshire, UK. He is on the Peer-review Panel of 15 medical journals from India, UK, USA, Poland, The Netherlands, China, Indonesia, and Nigeria. He is also a PhD Examiner of the University of Calcutta, India and Lincoln University College, Malaysia. He is associated with 69 organizations across the globe. Notably, he is the Vice President, Physiological Society of India, Elected Member, Infectious Diseases Society of America (Arlington, Virginia), Elected Member, American Society of Clinical Oncology (Alexandria, Virginia) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (London). He has received 16 awards for his research work from India, New Zealand, UK, and USA.

Research Interest

Virology, Vaccinology, and Public Health.