 Dr. V. Mohan is Chairman and Chief Diabetologist of Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, a chain of diabetes hospitals in India and President of the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, the largest research foundation for diabetes in Asia. He is also the a Steering Committee Member of the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, Govt. of India. His main research interests are in Epidemiology of diabetes and its complications (particularly cardiovascular disease, Genomics of diabetes and Fibro - calculous Pancreatic Diabetes). His contributions have helped to place India on the world map of diabetes research.
For his original research contributions, Dr. Mohan has received 70 awards to date from various international and national organizations including the prestigious Dr. B.C. Roy National Award by the Medical Council of India, the Basanthi Devi Amirchand Prize from the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Wockhardt Medical Excellence Award from Harvard Medical International, Boston, U.S.A., in addition to Fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Welcome Trust, UK and the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Dr. Mohan has served as a Consultant and Technical Expert of several World Health Organization (WHO) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) committees. Dr. Mohan also contributes extensively to charity and presently over 7,500 diabetic patients receive life long free treatment at his centre.
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Dr. Sujata Sharma is a practicing clinical psychologist. She had been the Consultant Neuropsychologist to the Indo-U.S. Cross-National Study on Dementia Epidemiology (under the aegis of National Institute of Aging, U.S.A.), and Consultant to UNICEF and NIPCCD working on Training Module on ‘Counseling Services for Child Survivors of Trafficking’. She has been weekly guest columnist of a national newspaper Hindustan Times (H.T. City) for about three years in the columns ‘Behavior’ (Mental Health) and ‘Relationships’. She has also been a part of the production team of a series on Mental Health – MINDWATCH for Doordarshan. 
Dr. Mira B. Aghi is a Behavioural Scientist and a Communications Expert whose work has focused on intervention research and advocacy in India and internationally, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern and Southern Africa. She was the first woman from Asia to be awarded the WHO Gold Medal on Tobacco Control in 1989 and is a tireless advocate for tobacco control across various sectors including Parliamentarians. 
Dr. Bir Singh is a Professor at the Centre for Community Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He has been part of the team that has established a Health Promotion & Health Communication (HPHC) Unit at the AIIMS. 
Dr. D. Prabhakaran Executive Director of Initiative for Cardiovascular Health Research in the Developing Countries (IC Health) and Executive Director of Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) and adjunct Professor of Chronic Disease of Epidemiology at the Public Health Foundation of India. Until recently he was an Additional Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. 
