Dr. Surya B. Parajuli

Dr. Surya B. Parajuli, Professor [Assistant] of Community Medicine at Kathmandu University serving at a university extended medical college Birat Medical College Teaching Hospital. He is founder editor of Birat Journal of Health Sciences (BJHS) and founder member secretary of Institutional Review Committee of the same institute. Since 2018 he has started as Fellow in Translational Research Capacity Building to address Cardiovascular Diseases in Nepal supported by US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He has completed a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Community Medicine & Tropical Diseases from the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Nepal. He did his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from Kathmandu University, Nepal, and Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences (Rural Development) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has founded and has been leading the Nepal Medical Volunteer Society in eastern Nepal since 2011. He has been producing and presenting his popular radio health program “Doctor Saathi’ as an eHealth initiative having 0.1 million listeners since 2011. He has a significant number of scientific publications and general health articles as a health columnist in leading newspapers of Nepal. From 1 Jan 2019, he started contributing as lead facilitator in different modular training on ethics, mental health, research, publication, grant proposal writing, leadership & management in health. You can communicate with him through the “contact/email me” form of his website www.suryaparajuli.com.np or his direct email drsathii@yahoo.com.