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Lakshmi Narasimhan BALAJI Edit Profile

researcher Development practitioner United Nations employee

Balaji Lakshmi Narasimhan, Indian United Nations volunteer, researcher. License medicine, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. Recipient National Talent Search award National Council Educational Research Training, 1974.

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

All works

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