Career
He is the only one person so far from Dalit communities of Nepal, who obtained the most coveted rank in the history of Salt Lake City Board Examinations. He ran and lost the election for the position of Regional Coordinator (Remote Control) for Americas in the NRNA International Coordinating Council (Interstate Commerce Commission), 2011-2013. He has served as the Advisor to NRN-Canada National Coordinating Council since 2008 as well as the Advisor to the NRNA International Coordinating Council (Interstate Commerce Commission) for 2011-2013.
In 2008-2009 period, he served in the Board of Directors of the Saskatchewan Epidemiology Association (Southern Economic Association, USA) and chaired its Website Development Committee.
He was elected as the Vice-President of Saskatchewan Public Health Association (SPHA), Regina, Saskatchewan in Canada, for 2011. In 2012, he chaired the Surveillance and Innovation Working Group (SIWG) of the Canadian Alliance for Regional Risk Factor Surveillance (CARRFS), a national network of public health professionals who are interested in chronic disease risk factor surveillance at the regional and local level in Canada.
Drona Rasali is a veterinarian, with specializations received in health-related sciences including pathology, endocrinology, quantitative genetics and epidemiology. He was the first Nepali researcher to compute and report internationally the estimates of genetic parameters (such as heritability and genetic correlations) of economically important traits in any population of livestock species of Nepal.
A research team led by him cultured the leukocytes of hill buffaloes of Nepal for the first time in a research laboratory within the country to confirm their riverine type by karyotyping with their chromosome numbers (2n =50).
Other notable examples of his research contributions, published nationally and internationally, spread across agrobiology (Some specific examples are: animal biodiversity, buffaloes, beef cattle and world"s sheep composite breeds), molecular/population genetics, quantitative genetics (eg genetic parameters estimation), veterinary epidemiology (eg transport mortality in chickens), and population and public health (eg surveillance of chronic diseases, injury and their risk factors,).