Dr. Anand Krishnan, MD. 

Anand Krishnan is a trained public health professional currently working as an Additional Professor in Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has been associated with the Comprehensive Rural Health Services Project Ballabgarh of Centre for Community Medicine sites since 1988. This site currently manages a population of about 90,000 in 28 villages. The site provides an excellent platform for community based research and training with its current version of fully computerized Health Management Information System whose development was led by him. 

His academic interests include non-communicable diseases surveillance, epidemiology prevention and control. He was a member of the National Technical Advisory Group for National Program for Diabetes , CVD and Stroke as well as for NCD surveillance under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program. He has worked with WHO/SEARO as Short Term Professional in the area of NCD prevention and control for more than a year and has attended more than thirty WHO Regional meetings as temporary Advisor in the last ten years. He has provided technical assistance to Health Ministries of Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives in planning their NCD surveillance programs. 

His other research interests include use of information technology in public health, health policy and program development & evaluation. He has more than hundred publications to his credit and is a regular reviewer of many major national and international journals. He is currently involved in a research on human influenza surveillance and vaccine effectiveness studies in collaboration with University of Alabama and Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta. 

He has been awarded BC Srivastava Award for Best Young Scientist in Community Medicine in India for the year 2000 by Indian Council of Medical Research. He has also been awarded Fellowship of the two leading public health associations in the country – Indian Public Health Association and Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine. (2006-07).