Hyderabad: Dr Bharati Kulkarni appointed as the new Director of NIN

She served as a scientist at ICMR-NIN for more than 20 years and for the past three years has been holding the position of the Head, Division of Reproductive and Child Health and Nutrition at ICMR

Hyderabad: Dr.Bharati Kulkarni, an acclaimed physician-scientist has taken over as new Director of National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) on Wednesday.

Dr Bharati specialized in Paediatrics from Pune University and has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health apart from a doctoral degree from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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She served as a scientist at ICMR-NIN for more than 20 years and for the past three years has been holding the position of the Head, Division of Reproductive and Child Health and Nutrition at ICMR.

Dr Bharati has conceptualized and led several large multi-centric research projects on important public health nutrition problems, especially in the domain of maternal and child nutrition, a press release said. She has also contributed to the conceptualization of ICMR’s multi-site National Health Research Priority projects for improving complementary feeding for young children, reducing anemia and stillbirth.

An author of more than 130 publications in high impact peer-reviewed international journals, she is recipient of oration awards in honour of Dr Rajammal P Devadas and Dr PG Tulpule and is a fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India.