Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, MD, DM

President, Public Health Foundation of India

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy former Professor and Head,  Department of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and has just recently assumed the responsibility of President, Public Health Foundation of India.He graduated from Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad and later trained at AIIMS, Delhi, where he received his MD (Medicine) and DM (Cardiology) degrees, with high academic honours [University II in MBBS; First in M.D. (Medicine); Gold Medal in D.M. (Cardiology)]. He is a clinical cardiologist, also trained in epidemiology (at McMaster University, Canada), and has a career commitment to preventive cardiology.

Prof. Reddy has been involved in several major international and national research studies including the INTERSALT global study of blood pressure and electrolytes, Indian Council of Medical Research commissioned national collaborative studies on Epidemiology of Coronary Heart Disease and Community Control of Rheumatic Heart Disease. He is currently the Coordinator of the Cardiovascular Health Research Initiative in the Developing Countries, a global partnership programme launched by the World Health Organization, Global Forum for Health Research and 14 other international agencies. He has also served on many WHO expert panels.

In 1995, he moved to Canada and joined McMaster University, where he was Chief of the Health Information Research Unit; Director of the McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre; Co-Director of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre; Associate Medical Director of the Program in Evidencebased Care for Cancer Care Ontario and Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics.

He is the Chair of the World Heart Federation’s Scientific Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. He has been a member of the International Faculty of the Annual Ten Day Teaching Seminar on Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention (organised by the World Heart Federation’s Scientific Council on Epidemiology and Prevention) since 1993.

Prof. Reddy edited the National Medical Journal of India for 10 years and is on editorial board of many international and national journals. He has more than 200 scientific publications in international and Indian peer reviewed-journals.

Prof. Reddy was awarded the WHO Director General’s Award for Global Leadership in Tobacco Control at the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003.

He was conferred the prestigious national award PADMA BHUSHAN by the President of India (one of the highest civilian awards conferred by the Government of India) on the occasion of the 57th Republic Day of India, in 2005. The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, UK, conferred the award of the Queen Elizabeth Medal for 2005 to Prof. Reddy.