Dr Chandrakant S. Pandav is a Professor and Head of Centre for Community Medicine, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India.

He is a Physician, Medical Scientist, Public Health Specialists, Epidemiologist and Health Economist.  Dr. Pandav completed both his graduation (MBBS) and postgraduate (MD; Community Medicine) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.  He has also done M.Sc. (Health Economics, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from the McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is an alumnus of the Department of Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London (United Kingdom). 

Dr Pandav has to his credit over 260 publications and presentations in reputed national and international journals, and in various conferences.  He has also co-edited 13 books on health sciences and health economics, published by the Oxford University Press, India.  He has also been conferred many national and international orations.

Dr Pandav has worked as a consultant for the WHO, UNICEF, ICCIDD, PAMM and MI at the global, regional (including China, Africa) levels for over 50 countries, and also at the national level in India for the last 30 years.

Though Dr Pandav has been working in the areas of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) and micronutrients, his other interests include health economics, health policy, health systems research, public-private partnership and rights issues.

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