Dr. Sailesh Mohan is a Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and the Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries (CCCI) - PHFI’s Centre of Excellence for Chronic Conditions. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and the India Site Director for the HBNU US-NIH-Fogarty Global Health Training Program for Postdoctoral Scholars.   He is involved in research, teaching, and engagement with policy and practice related to non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control, leading various research projects focused on: (a) developing, implementing, and evaluating sustainable comprehensive community and health system-based approaches to hypertension and diabetes prevention and control as well as multimorbidity (b) building the evidence base to support transformation to high quality health systems by improving measurement, testing solutions, and creating generalizable knowledge in partnership with researchers and changemakers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) (c) improving food systems by providing policy-makers with interdisciplinary scientific evidence on how food systems can deliver nutritious foods sustainably and equitably, (d) cohort studies (Precision-CARRS,UDAY) to advance understanding of cardiometabolic diseases and (e) training/mentoring junior researchers through training programs to undertake research and improve NCD prevention and control in India and other low-middle income countries.

In addition to research/teaching, Dr. Mohan also contributes to NCD policy endeavors in India by working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and serving as a member of influential policy-making committees of the WHO and Government of India on NCD prevention and control. He has been a recipient of the CIHR Canada HOPE Fellowship Award, selected as an “Emerging Leader” of the World Heart Federation’s initiative aimed to reduce premature mortality from NCDs by 2025 and also selected to the US-NIH supported “Public Health Leader” program of Emory University, that aims to develop the next generation of innovative and committed developing country public health leaders to address NCDs. He has published (>100 peer reviewed papers,>125 research abstracts, 6 book chapters, several reports and policy notes) and presented extensively on NCDs and has also successfully obtained peer reviewed grant funding from most of the leading global research agencies, with an active funding of over 18 million USD as co-investigator or principal investigator.