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Will India's New Health Policy Improve Effectiveness and Equity?
A CASI Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture - April 11, 2017, University of Pennsylvania


Can India Deliver on Universal Health Coverage?
A CASI Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture - October 10, 2013, New York City

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy is President of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly Head of the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).  He was appointed the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2009, and is also an Adjunct Professor of the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney. PHFI is engaged in capacity building in Public Health in India through education, training, research, policy development, health communication, and advocacy. In March 2017, he was also appointed Cabinet Minister and Advisor on Health to the Government of Odisha.

Having trained in cardiology and epidemiology

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K. Srinath Reddy

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Health Priorities

… Rheumatic heart disease at that time was the most challenging issue in terms of cardiovascular disease in our country, because coronary heart disease, hypertension, and stroke, while they were recognized as important problems, still in the hospital setting even in the early 70s were dwarfed by the huge proportion of rheumatic heart disease patients getting admitted. And rheumatic heart disease classically represented a disease of poverty, a disease of overcrowding, a disease of people who for a variety of reasons, maybe under-nutrition because of poor social and hygienic conditions were exposed to a huge load of streptococcal infection and had autoimmune disease develop as a result, severely crippling their valves and leading to early disability and death. And very few solutions were offered for rheumatic heart disease other than expensive surgery at that point in time. In terms of prevention, secondary prevention through penicillin was possible, but even that was not always useful in warding off the effects of already damaged valve

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K. Srinath Reddy

Indian cardiologist

Professor K. Srinath Reddy

Founder (Past) President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

NationalityIndian
Other namesK. Srinath Reddy
Alma materOsmania Medical College
Occupation(s)Physician Advisor on Public Health, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Known forPublic Health

K. Srinath Reddy is an Indian physician and the Former President of the Public Health Foundation of India and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

Career

Reddy is the Founder (Past) President, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He was appointed as the First Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in (2009–13) and presently serves as an adjunct professor of Epidemiology at Harvard (2014-2

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