Biraj Man Karmacharya

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Director, Public Health and Community Programs | Associate Professor | Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences

birajmk@kusms.edu.np

Biraj Man Karmacharya obtained a MBBS (2003) from Kathmandu University; an MS (Tropical Medicine, 2006) from Mahidol University, Thailand; a Ph.D. (Epidemiology, 2015) as a Fulbright Science and Technology awardee, and an MPH (Global Health, 2017) from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.

Dr. Karmacharya founded and has been leading the Department of Public Health/ Community Programs at DH since 2006, through which he is engaged in developing and setting up innovative community-based health and integrated health and development programs in Nepal. He has also been instrumental in advancing public health training and research in Nepal leading the pioneering programs MScPH (Epidemiology and Global Health) and lately the PhD Program in Public Health at KUSMS.

Research Interests: Epidemiology; climate change and health; health system and policy

Areas of Expertise: Implementation research; non-communicable diseases; global partnerships; global health