Mahaveer Golechha MSc, PhD

Dr. Mahaveer Jain Golechha, MSc, PhD, is the Lead-Health Systems and Healthcare Financing I Environment Public Health at the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. He is also an Associate Professor and Acting Registrar-IIPH-Gandhinagar and has a Masters's degree in Health Policy Planning and Financing from The London School of Economics and Political science (LSE) and a Diploma degree from LSHTM, UK. He is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust-UKC Master’s fellowship. He also has a Master's and PhD from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi with First Position.

He is currently involved in teaching and research activities at IIPH-Gandhinagar. His areas of expertise are Health System and Policy Research, Environmental Public Health, Climate Change and Health, and Pharmaceutical Policy and Economics. He led the Rajasthan Climate Change project for the development and implementation of India’s first Climate Resilience Action Plan for rural settings. Presently, he is also leading climate change and health projects at IIPHG. He is the project lead for the Rajasthan Health System Strengthening Project of the Public Health Research Initiative, DST, Govt of India for carrying out innovative studies for evaluating health system building block performance. He has substantial experience in healthcare policy, Climate Change, and the Health and social development sector, which has involved the following: working at a grass-root level for socio-economic development, public health, and poverty alleviation with Rotary and Lion’s International; extensive research at AIIMS, New Delhi, and contributing to Prime minister’s high-level expert group on universal health coverage, social determinants of health, Health System Projects and Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan at IIPH-Gandhinagar, and finally, the national rural health mission (Ministry of Health, Govt. of India).

From his education, professional work, and experience he has been recognized for his contributions with numerous accolades, namely the Outstanding Public Health Achievement Award by Govt. of Rajasthan, Exemplary Leadership Award, USA’s Alzheimer’s Young Scientist Award, Meritorious Service Award, Rotary Public Health Service Award and Govt. of India’s INSPIRE Fellow Award, amongst other.