Rajesh has a Ph.D. in Health Psychology and has undergone a Short Intensive Fellowship Program on HIV-Public Health and Program Delivery at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney under Australian Leadership Award Fellowship (ALAF). He has also received training in Public Health at Institute of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, U.K. Rajesh has more than 27 years of work experience in the public health practice, bio-medical and health systems researches, teaching and developing training programs. His work experience is mainly in program management, monitoring & evaluation, teaching, research & development and implementation of focused interventions among Most at Risk Groups (MARGs).He has worked in the State Governments (Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh) and at National AIDS Control organisation, MoH&FW, Government of India for eight years.He has remained Faculty at Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar University and Delhi. He has also served as Director, AIBAS, Amity University Haryana, where he had instituted new academic programs in affiliation with Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) and UGC. Currently, he is working as Professor and Director at Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and providing leadership to ADARSH project, which is funded by Gates Foundation in eight states of India and supported by MoHFW, GoI and respective State Governments. Rajesh has over three dozen research publications in the area of Public Health in peer reviewed, indexed national and international journals and has completed over one dozen funded research projects as PI and Co-PI. He is also member of PG Board of Studies at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak and Governing Council member at IIPH – Gandhinagar University, Gujarat.

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