Prabhakaran Dorairaj

Professor D. Prabhakaran is a cardiologist and epidemiologist by training. He is an internationally renowned researcher and is the Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, a Distinguished Professor of the Public Health Foundation of India. He is currently the President-Elect of the World Heart Federation and the immediate past Chair of the International Society of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention.
His work spans from mechanistic research to understanding the causes of increased propensity of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among Indians to developing solutions for CVD through translational research and human resource development. He has received funding from NHLBI, Wellcome Trust, the European Commission and several other international and national funding bodies. He has mentored over 50 post-doctoral and doctoral students so far. He has authored several chapters and over 700 scholarly papers with an H index of 117.