Deputy Director & Head – CVD Epidemiology, CCDC

Prof. Sailesh Mohan is involved in chronic non-communicable disease (NCD) research, teaching and training. Current work is 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) cohort studies (Precision-CARRS, UDAY) to advance understanding of  cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases and (e) training/mentoring junior researchers through training programs to undertake research and improve NCD prevention and control in India and other LMICs.