Bijaya Kumar Padhi

Summary

Bijaya K Padhi PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Environmental Health Sciences. He completed his post-doctoral training from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He earned his MPH degree in Health Promotion and Health Behavior from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. He has over 14 years of experience in public health teaching, research and community services. 
Dr Padhi has a special interest in looking at large scale health problems through the lenses of a socio-behavioral scientist. He use mixed method research approach to understand how human health, at both the individual and population level, is impacted by socio-environmental factors. His work broadly concentrates in various domains of public health, more specifically: air pollution and health, water sanitation and hygiene, and food safety. Dr Padhi has achieved several awards and fellowships during his academic career a few of them are; World Social Science Fellow (UNESCO), Young Investigator Award (YIA) of Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Fellow of International Congress on Environmental Research (FICER), Junior Scientist of the year 2009 from National Environmental Science Academy (NESA) India, Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR-India, D.S Kothari Post-doctoral Fellowship from UGC, India.

Dr Padhi is also actively involved in academic communities. He is a reviewer of high-impact journals, and a member of several important academic societies including the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). As an academic editor, he contributed to over 50 solicited editorial contributions via collaboration with numerous outstanding scholars around the world.

Research Interest: Health Promotion; Environmental Health; Spatial Epidemiology; Life Course Epidemiology; One Health

Climate Change Biology COVID-19 Data Mining & Machine Learning Environmental Health Epidemiology Global Health Healthcare Services Mental Health Obesity Public Health Spatial & Geographic Information Science Spatial & Geographic Information Systems