Vikash R Keshri, MD, PhD

It was great to chat with @drbanda.bsky.social on his podcast on the state of global health, education and mentorship

youtu.be/P32HqSa3SVc?...

04.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1

Honoured to join the panel on #Healthcare Revolution: India’s Path to Universal Healthcare Access” at the Policy Conclave at O P Jindal Global University

Key takeaway: Strengthening public primary healthcare is central to advancing UHC in India. #UHC #HealthForAll #PHC #RightoHealth

01.10.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#GlobalHealth is in crisis

The Global South Actors must take control to move from rhetoric to action!

#Gandhi - his life, struggle & principles of #ahimsa & #satyagraha (truth-force) can truly inspire this

Here I share my views on this doi.org/10.5334/aogh...

18.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honoured to take my first speaking & chairing role at
@JindalGlobalUni
🌿
Spoke on the health effects of Indian cannabis & chaired “Medicinal Cannabis: Stories from the Field.”
A unique, multidisciplinary & thought-provoking session

grateful to @JindalPublicHlth!

17.09.2025 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear #GlobalHealth fellows

How do you think #MahatmaGandhi would have approached power inequity & #decolonization movement in #GlobalHealth ?

09.09.2025 08:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Publication-Equivalent as the new single currency of research impact: The ICMR-Impact of Research and Innovation Scale (ICMR-IRIS) Publication-Equivalent as the new single currency of research impact: The ICMR-Impact of Research and Innovation Scale (ICMR-IRIS)

Indian Council of Medical Research @ICMRDELHI has come up with a new comprehensive scale to measure RESEARCH IMPACT

Methods are described in this piece in IJMR by the DG Dr. Rajiv Bahal 👇
ijmr.org.in/publication-...

03.09.2025 03:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

India's demographic dividend - an asset of time bomb?

Very thoughtful read👇

29.08.2025 04:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Dr. Pranab!

27.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“The NMC emerged as a cataclysmic response to the widespread failures of the MCI, aiming to reform medical education.
However, structural flaws, weak capacity, and rushed expansion ... NMC is simply a rebranded version of its predecessor."

I said in @TheLancet world report

20.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨 India’s public health education is expanding, but job opportunities r shrinking!

MPH grads face job scarcity & training issues

We need better policies, funding & workforce planning to bridge this gap! ⏳

Read editorial in @the_hindu 👇
shorturl.at/luyTU
#HealthPolicy

20.08.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Professional update:
Joined the Jindal school of public health & human development (JSPH)
@JindalGlobalUNI
as Associate Professor.

Look forward to interdisciplinary #publichealth & #humandevelopment teaching & research
& Teach in the first #GlobalHealth course from India.

12.08.2025 10:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0