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Dr. Bijaya Padhi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Health Sciences. He completed his post-doctoral training at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He earned his MPH degree in Health Promotion and Health Behavior from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. He has over 15 years of experience in public health teaching, research, and community services. Dr. Padhi has a special interest in looking at large-scale health problems through the lenses of a socio-behavioral scientist. He uses mixed-method research to understand how human health, at both the individual and population levels, is impacted by socio-environmental factors.

Dr. Padhi has achieved several awards and fellowships during his academic career a few of them are the World Social Science Fellow (UNESCO), the Young Investigator Award (YIA) of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Fellow of International Congress on Environmental Research (FICER), Junior Scientist of the year 2009 from National Environmental Science Academy (NESA) India, Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR-India, D.S Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship from UGC, India.

Dr. Padhi is also actively involved in academic communities. He serves on the editorial board of several high-impact journals and is a member of several important academic societies including the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). As an academic editor, he contributed to over 50 solicited editorial contributions via collaboration with numerous outstanding scholars around the world.

Research Interest: Evidence-based Medicine, Health Promotion; Environmental Health; Spatial Epidemiology; Life Course Epidemiology; One Health