Hyderabad National Institute of Nutrition gets new director
Hyderabad: Dr. Bharati Kulkarni, an acclaimed physician-scientist, takes charge as the new director of ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) on Wednesday.
Dr Kulkarni has specialized in Paediatrics from Pune University and has a Master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. She has earned a doctoral degree from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
“She served as a scientist at ICMR-NIN for more than 20 years and for the past three years she has been holding the position of the Head, Division of Reproductive and Child Health and Nutrition at Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi,” read a statement released by NIN.
According to the NIN, Dr Kulkarni 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, including anemia, childhood undernutrition, developmental origins of health and disease, body composition, community-based interventions to promote diet diversity, agriculture – nutrition linkages. The evidence generated by these studies has contributed to strengthening health and nutrition policies and programs.
Dr Kulkarni has also contributed to the conceptualization and initiation of ICMR’s multisite National Health Research Priority projects for improving complementary feeding for young children, upgrading norms for the growth and development standards for Indian children, reducing anemia and stillbirth. She has received several research grants from national and international funding agencies. She has authored more than 130 publications in high impact peer-reviewed international journals, several book chapters and policy documents.
Further, she is also the recipient of oration awards in honour of Dr Rajammal P Devadas and Dr PGTulpule and is a fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, India.
Hearty Congratulations to Dr Bharati Kulkarni (@BKulkarni_nin) on taking over as the New Director@ICMRDELHI @MoHFW_INDIA @DeptHealthRes pic.twitter.com/wwTQUmuegM
— ICMR – National Institute of Nutrition (@ICMRNIN) January 1, 2025
