Dr. Snehendu B. Kar is an alum of University of Kolkata.
By The American Bazaar Staff
WASHINGTON, DC: Snehendu B. Kar, professor emeritus of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health, was recently awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair by the U.S.-India Educational Foundation.
Kar will be completing research for a book project on “Women’s Empowerment for Global Health Promotion” for the Oxford University Press, according to a press release issued by the university. The fellowship will also enable him to introduce health psychology programs in two leading Indian universities, give guest lectures, take part in symposia and conferences and work with faculty members on program development and curriculum design.
Kar, who joined UCLA’s faculty in 1979, after a degree in MSc (Psychology), University of Kolkata, followed by degrees in MPH and DrPh from the University of California – Berkeley, does research focusing on population based health promotion and disease prevention. He recently served as the distinguished professor and academic advisor at the Public Health Foundation of India, assisting the organization in establishing academic degree programs and several schools of public health in India.
Kar’s public health career of over four decades includes academic research, graduate education, and academic leadership positions at three world class universities and public health schools in the United States. As the former Associate Dean and Chair of the then single-department School of Public Health (SPH) at UCLA, he was responsible for directing all academic programs of the eight academic divisions of the UCLA SPH with over 90 faculty members and over 620 graduate students.
He also served as the Founding Director and the Chair of the Executive style MPH Program for Health Professionals (MPHHP) program in Community Health Sciences (CHS) at UCLA over a decade, as the Founding Director of the Office of Public Health Practice for a decade, as the Head of the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Division at the SPH, and the Chair of the Asian American Studies Interdepartmental program at UCLA.
Prior to joining the UCLA, he served as an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of Public Health and of Population Planning, and also as the Acting Chair of Population Planning CDEpartment at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1969-79). Before coming to the US, Kar served as an Assistant Director General of Health Services (Research and Evaluation), Deputy Assistant Director General, and as a Senior Research Officer at the Central Health Education Bureau, the Ministry of Health and Family Planning, Government of India (1960-1969); and as a Senior Research Officer at the Bihar Tribal Research Institute (1958-1960), in Ranchi.
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