Dr Bharati Kulkarni takes over as Director of ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition
Hyderabad: Dr Bharati Kulkarni, an esteemed physician-scientist took over as the new Director at the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) on Wednesday.
Dr Kulkarni has a specialization 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.
According to an ANI report, 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 Head, of the Division of Reproductive and Child Health and Nutrition at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi.
She 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 anaemia, childhood undernutrition, developmental origins of health and disease, body composition, community-based interventions to promote diet diversity, agriculture - nutrition linkages.
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