Dr. Surya B. Parajuli MBBS, MD

Dr. Surya B. Parajuli, Assistant Professor of Community Medicine at Kathmandu University serving at a university extended medical college Birat Medical College & Teaching Hospital. He is also Chief of Department of Community Research and Development Program, Editor of Birat Journal of Health Sciences (BJHS) and Member Secretary of Institutional Review Committee of the same institute. Since 2018 he has started as Fellow in Translational Research Capacity Building to address Cardiovascular Diseases in Nepal supported by US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). He has completed a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in Community Medicine & Tropical Diseases from the B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Nepal. He did his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) from Kathmandu University, Nepal and Master of Arts in Humanities and Social Sciences (Rural Development/Agrarian Injury as Thesis) from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He has founded and has been leading the Nepal Medical Volunteer Society at eastern Nepal since 2011. He has been continuously involved in Health research advocacy, eHealth initiative, a mentorship program for young students, policy advocacy, developing and setting up innovative community-based health endeavors in rural Nepal. He has been producing and presenting a popular radio health program “Doctor Saathi’ since 2011 which has already completed194th episode by 2019 October. There are more than 50 thousand active listeners. He was a site investigator at a national level “A randomized, double-blind, clinical trial of two dose regimens of VINS polyvalent anti-venom ATC J06AA03 for the treatment of Snakebites with neurotoxin envenoming in Nepal (n 08-192)” at B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal in collaboration with Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland. Since 2015 he has been leading an innovative healthcare project, Budhiganga Health Survey (BHS) covering almost 50000 population of 10000 households at Budhiganga Rural Municipality of Morang district of Nepal in coordination with local government, research organizations, CBOs, and academia. He has a responsibility as editor of many biomedical journals including Birat Journal of Health Sciences, International Journal of Perceptions in Public Health, Journal of Medical Research and Innovation, Bibechana: A Multidisciplinary Journal. He is publishing and leading significant scientific articles, active as a health columnist of the leading newsletter and involved in more than 20 research projects. Since 1 Jan 2019, he started contributing as lead facilitator in different modular training on ethics, research, publication, grant proposal writing, leadership & management in health. You can communicate with him through "contact/email me" form of his website www.suryaparajuli.com.np or his direct email drsathii@yahoo.com
Phone: 9841794785
Address: Nepal