A medical graduate and MD in Community Medicine from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Currently working as a Professor in the Centre for Community Medicine since 2003. Her area of work is on medical education, non-communicable diseases, primary health care, health systems, evaluation of health programs. She has more than 15 years’ work experience in NCDs and primary health care including working with the Ministry of Health Government of India, World Health Organization, ICMR and Johns Hopkins University.