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Lalit Dandona

Lalit Dandona, MD, MPH, is Distinguished Research Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India in New Delhi and part-time Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Dr. Dandona and his research teams have carried out public health research in India for 15 years on HIV/AIDS, blindness, population health measurement, health systems, intervention evaluation, and research capacity. Several of these research projects included multicountry collaborations. Dr. Dandona has more than 125 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has served on the editorial boards of 10 journals and as scientific reviewer for over 30 journals and several granting agencies. He received the 2006 BioMed Central Research Award in Medicine for public health research on HIV in India.

Dr. Dandona received his medical training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. He also received his MPH at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore. He previously served as Professor and Chair of International Public Health at the University of Sydney School of Public Health, Senior Director of the George Institute for International Health India, and Professor and Director of the Centre for Human Development at the Administrative Staff College of India. He has taught researchers, policymakers, and public health practitioners, and has served as a technical expert in public health for governments, universities, and international organizations and committees.

Selected Publications:

1. Dandona L, Raban MZ, Guggilla RK, Bhatnagar A, Dandona R.  Trends of public health research output from India during 2001-2008. BMC Medicine. 2009; 7: 59.  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/7/59
2. Dandona L, Kumar SGP, Kumar GA, Dandona R. Economic analysis of HIV prevention interventions in Andhra Pradesh state of India to inform resource allocation. AIDS. 2009; 23:233-42.
3. Raban MZ, Dandona R, Dandona L. Essential health information available for India in the public domain on the internet. BMC Public Health. 2009; 9: 208. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/9/208
4. Dandona L, Kumar SGP, Ramesh YK, Rao MC, Kumar AA, Marseille E, Kahn JG, Dandona R. Changing cost of HIV interventions in the context of scaling-up in India.  AIDS. 2008; 22(suppl 1):S43–9.
5. Dandona L, Dandona R, Kumar GA, Reddy GB, Ameer MA, Ahmed GM, Ramgopal SP, Akbar M, Sudha T, Lakshmi V. Risk factors associated with HIV in a population-based study in Andhra Pradesh state of India. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2008; 37:1274-86.
6. Dandona L, Dandona R. Drop of HIV estimate for India to less than half. The Lancet. 2007; 370:1811-13.
7. Dandona L, Lakshmi V, Sudha T, Kumar GA, Dandona R. A population-based study of human immunodeficiency virus in south India reveals major differences from sentinel surveillance-based estimates. BMC Medicine. 2006; 4:31. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/4/31/
8. Dandona L. Clinical trials in India: balancing economic opportunity with the public health context [editorial]. National Medical Journal of India. 2006; 19:57-9.
9. Dandona L, Dandona R. What is the global burden of visual impairment? BMC Medicine. 2006; 4:6.  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/4/6/
10. Dandona L, Dandona R, Gutierrez JP, Kumar GA, McPherson S, Bertozzi SM, ASCI FPP Study Team. Sex behaviour of men who have sex with men and risk of HIV in Andhra Pradesh, India. AIDS. 2005; 19:611-19.
11. Dandona L, Tandon N, Sahni P. Academic medicine and health improvements in India [editorial]. National Medical Journal of India. 2005; 18:53-8.
12. Dandona L, Sivan YS, Jyothi MN, Bhasker VSU, Dandona R. The lack of public health research output from India. BMC Public Health. 2004; 4:55. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/4/55/
13. International Working Party to Promote and Revitalise Academic Medicine (includes Dandona L). Academic medicine: the evidence base. British Medical Journal. 2004; 329:789-92.
14. Dandona L. Conceptualizing health policy. National Medical Journal of India. 2002; 15:226-31.
15. Dandona L, Dandona R, Naduvilath TJ, McCarty CA, Nanda A, Srinivas M, Mandal P, Rao GN. Is current eye-care-policy focus almost exclusively on cataract adequate to deal with blindness in India? The Lancet.1998; 351:1312-16.

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