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President of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health
Dr. P. C. Gupta is the Director Research of Healis. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, USA. He is Advisor to several bodies like the Indian Council of Medical Research and World Health Organization.
He is connected with several Non-Governmental Organizations as well; being the President of the Action Council against Tobacco, India and Advisor to several anti-cancer and tobacco control organizations. |
Dr. Prakash C Gupta
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He was a Senior Research Scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and an Honorary Consultant at the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai.
Research Interest:
Dr P. C. Gupta’s major research interest is tobacco epidemiology. His academic accomplishments include a Doctorate in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Masters in Statistics from Bombay University. He was also a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, USA and a Visiting Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, France.
He has achieved the Luther Terry Award from the American Cancer Society for exemplary leadership in Tobacco Control and the Tobacco Free World Award from the Director General, World Health Organization. Apart from this, he is a member of several National and International Expert Groups. He is also Regional Editor, South East Asia for the journal ‘Tobacco Control’, and Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ‘Nicotine and Tobacco Research’.
His recent publications:
Gupta PC, Asma S (eds.) Bidi Smoking and Public Health. New Delhi: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, 2008.
Hatsukami DK, Stead LF, Gupta PC. Tobacco addiction. Lancet 2008; 371; 2027-38.
Jha P, Jacob B, Gajalakshmi V, Gupta PC, Dhingra N, Kumar R, Sinha DN, Dikshit RP, Parida DK, Kamadod R, Boreham J, Peto R on behalf of the RGI-CGHR Collaborators. Smoking and mortality among women and men in India: large, nationally representative case-control study. New England Journal of Medicine. 2008 Mar 13; 358(11):1137-47.
Gupta PC, Subramoney S. Smokeless tobacco use during pregnancy and risk of stillbirth: A cohort study in Mumbai, India. Epidemiology. 2006 Jan;17(1):47-51.
Gupta PC. Editorial - Tobacco control in India. Indian J Med Res 123; May 2006; 579-582.
Gupta PC, Pednekar MS, Parkin DM, Sankaranarayanan R. A cohort study of 99,570 individuals in Mumbai, India for tobacco-associated mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2005 Dec; 34(6):1395-402.
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