Dr. Chandrakant S. Pandav is currently Professor and Head of the Department – Centre for Community Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He is an MD in Community Medicine from AIIMS, Delhi and M.Sc in Health Economics, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McMaster University Hamilton, Canada and an alumnus of the Department of Human Nutrition, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Pandav has been Vice President and President, Indian Public Health Association and President of Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine (IAPSM). Dr. Pandav has played prominent roles in WHO & UNICEF