Dr Gagandeep Kang, Director of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, honoured with the prestigious John Dirks Gairdner global health award 2024.

Awards

Dr Gagandeep Kang, Director of Global Health at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, honoured with the prestigious John Dirks Gairdner global health award 2024. It is the most well-recognised global health award. The John Dirks Award in global health is awarded by the Gairdner Foundation in Canada. She is the first Indian woman to get this award. She was awarded for “extensive cohort-based epidemiological, environmental and clinical trial research on enteric diseases in children and their effects on life course, with significant impact on vaccine development and health policy in India and internationally. She has led studies that contributed to the development and introduction of two Indian rotavirus vaccines into the national immunisation programme.


     

     

     

 

     


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