Lakshmi Narasimhan BALAJI

Background

Balaji, Lakshmi Narasimhan was born on July 3, 1958 in New Delhi, India. Son of M.S.L. Narasimhan and Jaya (Jayammal) Narasimhan.

Education

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, 1979. Diplomate of National Board of Examinations, New Delhi, 1987. Doctor of Philosophy, All India Institute Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1989.

Career

Resident Maulana Azad Medical College Assocs Hospitals, New Delhi, 1981, Lady Hardinge Medical College Associate Hospitals, New Delhi, 1982. Research officer Central Technology Committee Health Nutrition All India Institute Medical Science, 1982-1986, senior research officer Central Tech Committee Health Nutrition, 1986-1989. Project officer - Integrated Child Development Services United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, 1989-1991, project officer - Community Health, 1991-1994, chief planning, research, Monitoring, since 1994.

India based Primary Health Care advisory committee, Canada Foodgrains Bank's funds Primary Health Care activities India, since 1997.

Achievements

• License medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.

Works

• article

  • Author: What Ails the Medical Education in India (K.K. Sharma Memorial award), 1981.

• Other Work

  • ‘Halving of 1990 malnutrition rates in every country by 2000: a challenge for Health education and promotion’ – Editorial in the journal – Health Education in South East Asia an official publication of IUHPE, SEARB, in January, 1996

  • 'Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme’ – a training package for the Maternal and Child Health programme; main author and editor of the 6 modules package developed for implementing the UCI plus programme in India, July 1992

    ('Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme’ – a traini...)

  • Integrated Child Development Services – Monitoring and Continuing Education System – a monograph published by the Central Technical Committee on Health and Nutrition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 1985

  • ‘AIDS Education in Schools – A training package’ – a contributor to the package developed by National Council of Educational Research and Training and National AIDS Control Organization, October, 1994

  • ‘AIDS prevention education for Student youth’ – a training manual – main contributor to the training manual developed by the State Government of Maharashtra, India.

  • ‘HIV/AIDS prevention education for student youth’ – a training manual – one of the main contributors to the training package developed by the Dept. of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, 1993

  • A chapter on ‘Malnutrition’ in the book ‘Climate Change and Disease Dynamics in India’ published by the Energy Research Institute, India, 2013
    
    

    (A chapter on ‘Malnutrition’ in the book ‘Climate Change a...)

  • Coordinating and lead author for the ‘Thematic paper on MDG 4, 5 and 6’ Published by UNDG as an input to the MDG 2010 summit.

  • ‘Health of Women, Children and Men’ in Tribal areas – focus for consideration, Editors Bhupinder Singh and Neeti Mahanti p. 93­-100 published by Inter­India Publications, New Delhi – 15, 1995

  • ‘Nutrition scenario in India ­ implications for clinical practice’ in the Journal of the Indian Medical Association, Vol. 98, No. 9, p. 536 to 542, September, 2000

  • ‘Morbidity pattern and cause specific Mortality during Infancy in ICDS projects’ in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Vol. 33, p. 190­3, August, 1987

  • ‘Study of Physical and Psychosocial Development of Pre­school Children’ in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Vol. 33, p 107­9, April, 1987

  • ‘Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Herbs : Intellectual Property Rights in Intellectual Property Rights. Editors Bhupinder Singh and Neeti Mahanti, p. 91-­96 published by Inter­India Publications, New Delhi – 15, 1997

  • ‘Epidemiology of Acute Diarrhoea in Children, its Policy Implications for Management’ – jointly with Mr. Alan Court in the Indian J Pediatr Gastroenterol Hum Nutr, Vol. 1, No. 2 April­-Jun 2000

  • ‘Health of Women and Children in Tribal Areas : a policy framework’ in Tribal policy in India. Editors: Bhupinder Singh and Neeti Mahanti, p. 76-­80 published by Inter­India Publications, New Delhi – 15, 1997

  • ‘Monitoring Child Goals: What can ICDS Offer?’ in ICCW Journal, July to December, 1995

  • Prevalence and Clinical features of Chronic Pancreatitis in Southern India, Balaji, L.N., Tandon, R.K., Tandon, B.N. et al. Int. J. Pancreatol. (1994) 15: 29. doi:10.1007/BF02924385

  • ‘Physical, physiological and social development of pre­school children’ In the Proc. Nutn. Soc. India,Vol No. 32, p. 146, 86.

  • ‘GIS in Health’ in the Journal GIS at development, Volume IV Issue 6, June 2000

  • ‘Women and AIDS’, in Journal of the Ind. Medical Association, Vol. 92, No. 1, p. 15­6, Jan, 1994

Membership

Research work on "Health attitudes hospital workers and its implications for their involvement in health education activities in the community (Dr. Satya Gupta award), 1979-1980. Member Indian Society Pacreatology, Institute Health Nutrition, Computer Society India, Southeast Asia Regional Bulletin International Union Health Promotion Education (editorial board), New York Academy of Sciences

Interests

• Computers, travel.

Connections

Married Uma Govindarajan, Aug 19, 1988. Children: Bamini, Padmini.

Father:

M.S.L. Narasimhan

Mother:

Jayammal

Spouse:

Uma Govindarajan

child:

Bamini Balaji

child:

Padmini (Suvasini) Balaji