Professor Manu Mathur

Manu Mathur has more than 15 years of global experience of working in different health systems. He is Head of Health Policy at Public Health Foundation of India and Professor of Dental Public Health at Queen Mary University of London. He has a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from University College London and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Glasgow.

 

His research focuses on risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), especially tobacco cessation. Throughout his career, Professor Mathur has been an advocate for the Universal Health Coverage philosophy and played an active role in ensuring that appropriate quality oral health care is available, affordable, and accessible for all, across different health systems.

 

Manu Mathur is a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Global Oral Health and Incoming President of the Global Oral Health Inequalities Research Network of International Association for Dental Research. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals, has been the principal investigator on many projects funded by Government of India, WHO, MRC-UK, BMGF, USAID and NIH-USA. His areas of expertise cover epidemiologic methods, operations, health systems and policy research, and health promotion.

 

He is also recently been recognised in the top two per cent of impact-making researchers worldwide in the field of Medicine and Public Health.