Biography

Dr Rakesh P S
Deputy Director Programme, The Union
Education – MBBS, Medical College Trivandrum (Oct 2001 to Nov 2007)
MD – Community Medicine, CMC Vellore (Feb 2009 to March 2012)
Dr Rakesh P S, is a Public Health intervention specialist who works for low-cost sustainable solutions and building resilient health systems.He has been working for TB Elimination for the last 10 years.
He is also a Bernard Lown scholar in Cardiovascular Health and a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Private healthcare sector-led initiative to end TB in India

​Private sector led sustainable system for ensuring standards of TB care is possible and appears to be a low-cost solution.

Source: Conference 2024