Chandrakant Lahariya is an Indian

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& policy expert and writer. Lahariya is the author of the book '' Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic''. In early 2008, Lahariya joined the

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, where - in the years which followed - he coordinated the organization's work on the new vaccines introduced in the country.

Awards and recognitions

In the year 2012, he received

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’s Dr B.C. Srivastava Foundation Award for his work on translating community-based health research into

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interventions. In October 2020, in a study conducted by

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and published in the reputed

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, Lahariya was listed amongst the top 2% of researchers globally, in the fields of

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and

. He was, once again, included in the list of Top 2% researcher globally, in 2021.

Books and writing

Lahariya is the author of the book '' Till We Win: India's Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic'', co-authored with

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and Gagandeep Kang of Christian Medical College,

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. In 2009-10, Lahariya was the guest editor (along with Dr

Vinod Kumar Paul Vinod Kumar Paul is an Indian pediatrician and physician scientist currently serving as Member, NITI Aayog. He earlier served as professor of neonatology at the Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delh ...

, then Professor of pediatrics at

and now Member of

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, Govt. of India) of a special series on child survival in India. This series was published in the ''Indian Journal of Pediatrics'' and had contributions from leading Indian

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experts including Prema Ramachandran, Deoki Nandan, Prasanna K. Hota, and Shiv Lal. Lahariya who had co-authored a few articles, including one with Dr

Selected publications

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References

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