Mr. Siddharth Agarwal is a seasoned physician with an impressive 35-year career in public health research and programming. His work primarily focuses on nutrition, maternal-newborn-infant health, community empowerment, urban health, and wellbeing. He has also played a significant role in providing policy and program support to National and State governments.

Mr. Agarwal is the founder of UHRC, an organization dedicated to improving the health, nutrition, and well-being of deprived urban dwellers. He serves as an advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) – SEARO and WHO-Kobe and is an expert at UNHabitat-HQ. Additionally, he is an Expert & Advisor for UNICEF India and a member of several committees of the Ministry of Health, Government of India, as well as State-level committees. His expertise is also recognized internationally, having been an advisor for UK-AID and a panel member for the Rockefeller Foundation’s RULER from 2009 to 2011.

In academia, Mr. Agarwal is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Global Health, and at the George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services. He also holds a position as a Senior Lecturer in Population Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester.

His contributions to the field have been acknowledged with the AXA Outlook Award in 2014. Mr. Agarwal is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Urban Health and serves as a reviewer for several Indian and international journals. He is also a grant reviewer for The Wellcome Trust and the National Institute for Health Research in the UK.

For further information on his work and publications, Mr. Agarwal can be accessed via his Google Scholar profile at http://bit.do/siddharthagarwal and his ORCID ID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4293-435X.