rendezvous

Rendez-vous 180, March 1, 2010 with Vinayak Prasad, Senior Adviser for WHO's Africa initiative

Rendez-vous with Vinayak Prasad, Senior Adviser for WHO's Africa initiative.

Thank you Vinayak for taking the time to be with us today.

May I ask you to introduce yourself by giving us some background (educational, professional) information about yourself and by telling us how, when and why you got involved in tobacco control.

Vinayak Prasad: : Let me thank you for giving me this opportunity to discuss the WHO project for Africa. My Background: I joined the WHO Tobacco Free Initiative in Dec 2009 to work on the Gates Africa project.

I was working with the Government of India for the past 20 years in different capacities in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Health. Some of my initial years were spent in working with Indian Customs, working on trade facilitation and strengthening capacity to tackle illicit trade.

Rendez-vous with Sharad Vaidya

July 20,1999, Rendez-vous #39  (Sharad Vaidya died on October 19, 2000)

Thank you Sharad for accepting our " rendez-vous ". May I ask you to introduce yourself ? (and NOTE)

 

I am a surgeon (MS-Master of Surgery of University of Bombay) by training and practice. I am 63 years of age. My wife is a doctor and actively helps me in preparing the educational materials. My son Jayant was one who insisted that our organization should have the word "Eradication of Tobacco" at the stage of naming the organization in 1992.

Rendez-vous 6 with Kinner C Shah

Tuesday, February 2 1999  Rendez-vous #6

Thank you Kinner for accepting our " rendez-vous ". May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

I am a Surgical Oncologist in the city of Ahmedabad, with a population of 4 million.

My city is the largest in the State of Gujarat which is one of the larger states in India.

After my medical school I have done my masters in General Surgery and M.Ch (Master of Chirurgiae) in Oncosurgery from the Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute.