CONTENTS

1.   Introduction           Organisation Chart           NICD Faculty/Administration/Staff           Budget at a Glance (1997)

2.   Objectives and Functions of the Institute

3.   National Health Programmes           National Surveillance Programme for Communicable Diseases (NSPCD)           Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (GWEP)           Yaws Eradication Programme (YEP)

4.   Scientific and Research Activities        Headquarters           Division of AIDS & HIV           Division fo Biochemistry/Biotechnology           Division of Epidemiology           Division of Helminthology           Division of Microbiology           Division of Medical Entomology/Vector Control           Division of Training & Malariology           Division of Zoonosis        Branches           Alwar           Bangalore           Calicut           Coonoor           Jagdalpur           Patna           Rajamundry           Varanasi

5.   Manpower Development/Training Courses, Workshops, Seminars

6.   Outbreak Investigations

7.   Participation in Conferences, Workshops, Seminars and Symposia

8.   WHO/Other International Fellowships

9.   Membership of Expert Committes/Advisory Panel/Honours

10. Important Visitors during the Year

11. Publications/Presentations

Annexures           Central Library           Central Animal Facility

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9. Membership of Expert Committees Advisory Panel/ Honours

Dr. Jotna Sokhey, Director, NICD 

1.      Member – Scientific Advisory Committee, ECD, ICMR

2.      Member – Scientific Advisory Group, Enterovirus Research Centre, ICMR

3.      Life Member – Indian Public Health Association

4.      Fellow – Indian Society of Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases.

5.      Fellow – Indian Academy of Paediatrics

6.      Secretary – Indian Society of Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases.

7.      President – Indian Association of Epidemiologists.

Dr. (Mrs.) Saraljit Sehgal, Director (Micro) & Head Division of Zoonosis (Upto 24.10.97)

1.      Member WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Zoonosis

2.      Director WHO Collaborative Centre on Rabies Epidemiology

3.      Member Secretary Committee on Zoonosis, India

4.      Organiser of Inter-State Meeting in India.

5.      Member of national Rodent Control Programme.

6.      Member of the Kayasanur Forest Disease (KFD) Control Committee in India.

7.      Expert on Rabies from India for SAARC Countries.

8.      On ISI Panel as Chairman of Committee on Food Hygiene.

9.      Member Joint ICAR-ICMR Panel on Zoonosis.

10.  Member Vaccine Production Board.

11.  Member Task Force on Control of Leishmaniasis.

12.  Member Task Force on Rabies.

13.  WHO Consultant/Advisor on Rabies.

Dr. Usha K.Baveja, Consultant & Head Division of AIDS

1.      University Examiner for MBBS, M.D. MLT. & Ph.D. of Delhi and other Universities.

2.      Member Expert Committee (NACO) Diagnostic Kits.

3.      Member Projects Review Committee ICMR on Diarrhoeal Diseases.

4.      Expert Referee for Indian Journal of Medical Research, Journal of Communicable Diseases & JIAMM.

5.      Member National AIDS Committee under Ministry of Health.

6.      Member, Editorial Panel, Journal of Communicable Diseases.

Dr. Rajesh Bhatia, Consultant & Head Division of Microbiology

1.      Member WHO Expert Panel on Acute Bacterial Diseases

2.      Examiner HP University

3.      Examiner for Ph.D. Students Jiwaji University, Gwalior

4.      Referee IJMR, J Comm Dis, J IAMM

5.      Editorial panel of CD Alert

6.      Special Invitee to Meetings of National Apical Advisory Committee

7.      Special Invitee to meetings of Technical Subgroup of National Apical Advisory Committee for its various meetings

8.      Expert to UPSC

9.      Expert to Defence Research Development Organization for RAC National Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Network

Dr. S.T. Pasha, Joint Director & Head, Division of Biochemistry/Biotechnology

1.      Man of the Year Honour by American Biographical Institute, North Carolina, USA

2.      Member Doctoral Committee, Deptt. of Biotechnology, AIIMS, New Delhi

3.      Member Expert Committee, DRDO, Delhi

4.      Member of Evaluation Panel of Biological Testing Laboratory, DST, Delhi

5.      Life Member, Academy of Biomedical Scientists

6.      Life Member, Indian Society of Malaria and other Communicable Diseases.

7.      Life Member, Indian Society of Parasitology

8.      Member, Society of Biological Chemist

Dr. D.C. Jain, Joint Director & Head Division of Epidemiology

1.      Secretary – Indian Association of Epidemiologists

2.      Member – Indian Public Health Association

3.      Editorial Referee – Journal of Communicable Diseases

Dr. S.K. Sharma, Joint Director

1.      Acted as an Expert for the Selection of Senior Level Scientist, at Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), Delhi.

Dr. (Mrs.) Veena Mittal, Joint Director

1.      On ISI Panel on Committee on Food Hygiene.

2.      Member of New York Academy of Sciences.

3.      Referee for IJMR, J. Comm.Dis., Indian J. Paediatrics

Dr. Shashi Khare, Joint Director

1.      Expert Member of Fellowship Committee on Communicable Diseases, ICMR

2.      Member – Selection Committee of National Institute of Biologicals.

3.      Examiner for Evaluation of Ph.D. and M.D. Thesis for Delhi University.

4.      Expert Referee for Indian Paediatrics, J. Comm. Dis.

5.      DRDE.

Dr. Sunil Gupta, Joint Director

1.      Executive Member of Delhi Chapter of “Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists” for 1997

2.      Expert Referee for the Journal of Communicable Diseases.

3.      Expert Referee for Journal of Basic and Applied Biomedicine

4.      Examiner for Evaluating M.Sc. Microbiology Dissertation by Himachal Pradesh University.

Dr. C. Rajendran, Joint Director

1.      Mycological Society of India

2.      International Society for Human and Animal Mycology

3.      Indian National Science Academy

Dr. A.C. Dhariwal, Joint Director

1.      Member of the Subgroup of the National Apical Advisory Committee to work out a National Action Plan for Disease Surveillance.

Dr. Uma Chawla, Joint Director

1.      Member – Indian Association of Epidemiologists

2.      Member – Indian Public Health Association

3.      Editorial Referee – Journal of Communicable Diseases

4.      Editorial Board – Indian Journal of Public Health

Dr. P.K. Patnaik, Joint Director

1.      Selected as Member – Secretary of the Team for the ‘Evaluation of National Leprosy Eradication Programme’ during 7-19 April 1997.

Dr. Jagvir, Deputy Director

1.      On the Editorial panel of the Journal of Communicable Disease

2.      Reviewer for Scientific Articles for the Indian Journal of Paediatrics

Dr. Gautam Biswas, Deputy Director

1.      Member of the Task Force on Community Directed Treatment of Lymphatic Filariasis and Onchocerciasis of the World Bank/UNDP/WHO.

2.      Member of the Environmental Sub-Group of the Narmada Control Authority.

Dr. Arvind Rai, Deputy Director

1.      Life Member, Academy of Bio-medical Scientists

2.      Executive Body Member, Indian Society of Microbiology, Delhi Chapter

3.      Executive Editor, Journal of Basic and Applied Bio-medicine

4.      As External Examiner for HAU, Hissar, Delhi

5.      Member of Doctoral Committee Biotechnology, AIIMS, New Delhi

6.      Expert Invitee for Review of Scientist Project, DRDE, Gwalior

Dr. K.V. Chandrashekara, Deputy Director

1.      Indian Journal of Medical Research (Referee)

2.      Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences (Referee)

3.      Journal of Communicable Diseases (Editorial Board)

4.      Journal of basic and Applied Medicine (Editorial Board)

Dr. R.S. Gupta, Deputy Director

1.      Member of Advisory Committee for Control of Malaria in the District.

Sh. D.S. Rawat, Asstt. Director

1.      Life Member, Academy of Biomedical Scientists

2.      Life Member, Indian Society of Parasitology

3.      Member, Indian Society of Malaria and other Communicable Diseases

4.      Member, Society of Biological Chemists

5.      Associate Managing Editor, Journal of Basic and Applied Biomedicine

6.      Member of Association of Clinical Biochemist of India

Dr. R. Kaur, Assistant Director

1.      Acted as a member of Technical evaluation team for NMEP – Field trial of the microbial Insecticide,  Bacillus thuringiensis for malaria control.

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