Lalit Dandona
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Lalit Dandona is Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and Distinguished Research Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India. He is also Director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative, a collaboration involving the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Public Health Foundation of India, IHME, and about 100 institutions across India. His research teams have worked in India for over 25 years on health and disease measurement and its application to policy, health system assessment, health economics, impact assessment of population health interventions, and population-based studies of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, and injuries. Earlier in his career, he served as Professor and Chair of International Public Health at the University of Sydney School of Public Health, Senior Director of the George Institute for International Health India, and Professor and Director of the Centre for Human Development at the Administrative Staff College of India. He is known for leading work on disease burden and risk factor trends for every state of India over the past three decades through the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative.
Updated 4 September 2026
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