CV of Dr. Mahesh Bhatt

Name – Dr. Mahesh Prasad Bhatt

Date of Birth – 15/08/1966

Email – mpmbhatt@gmail.com ; mbhatt@mmbshs.com 

Expertise – Medical and Public Health

Citizenship – India 

Education - B.Sc., MBBS, MS (Surgery), PG Certificate in Hospital Management   

Employment Record -

June 2017 to date -   

MD and CEO, MMBSHS Trust (A Volunteer-Driven Charitable Trust), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

(A Member of the Global Climate & Health Alliance)

Nov. 2014 to May 2017 - 

Joint Director (JD), Department of Health and Family Welfare Govt. of Uttarakhand, India.

July 2011 to Oct 2014 -

Senior Surgeon and Head Department of Surgery Doon Hospital Dehradun. Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare.

Feb 2007 to June 2011 -

Senior Surgeon Govt. Coronation Hospital, Dehradun. Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare.

June 2005 to Jan 2007 - 

Surgeon Govt. Combined Hospital Kotdwar, Pauri Garhwal. Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare.

Jan 2004 to May 2005 - 

Surgeon and MD, City Hospital, Shrinagar (Garhwal). City Hospital (a small private hospital).

Jan 2003 to Dec 2003 - 

Principal Doon Paramedical College Dehradun. Doon Paramedical Education Trust Dehradun.

July 2002 to Dec 2003 -

Chief Medical Superintendent CMI Hospital Dehradun. Combined Medical Institute Dehradun. 

Feb 1997 to June 2002 -

Medical Officer (Surgery) Govt. Combined Hospital Shrinagar (Garhwal). Govt. of Uttarakhand, Dept. of Health and Family Welfare.

A lso worked as a part-time guest faculty at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Birla Campus of HNB Garhwal University Shrinagar (Garhwal) 

Membership of Professional Associations –

A) National – The Association of Surgeons of India (ASI), 

Indian Medical Association (IMA), 

Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), 

Epidemiology Foundation of India (EFI)

B) International – World Medical Association (WMA), 

 International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), 

International Health Literacy Association (IHLA),

 The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA)

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

 Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis (STARS)

Projects (where I worked as a public health and medical consultant) –

a) National Health Programs – Involved in the implementation, evaluation, training, and quality control of national health programs, specifically Family Planning, RCH, and National Health Mission (NHM) projects in the Uttarakhand region till 2017 while I was working in different capacities with Uttarakhand Government.

b) State Health Programs of Uttarakhand – Involved in policy-making, implementation, evaluation, training, and quality control exercises of health programs and projects at block, district, and state levels.

c) Telemedicine and support program and other small health promotion and community health projects by MMBSHS Trust and other NGOs during COVID-19. All of them were online, like medical support, training of village people to use pulse oximeters and thermometers, training and communication with community leaders and frontline healthcare workers, health promotion talks in collaboration with academic and social institutions and organizations, etc.

d) Resource Person for training and Public Health Expert in Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), which is funded by the Government of India for its training programs at district and state levels.

e) Resource Person and Public Health Expert in Swachh Bharat Mission funded by the Government of India.  

f) Associated as a public health consultant with the SBMA, a prestigious NGO in the hills of Uttarakhand region of India, for several years till 2006 and worked with their projects funded by various organizations. I provided consultancy and training services in public health, community health, health education, and health promotion domains in the following projects of SBMA from 1998-99 to 2005-6. Agencies like the World Bank funded these projects.

1) Uttarakhand Rural Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Project, funded by the World Bank.

2) The government of Uttarakhand funded the State Innovation in Family Planning Services (SIFPSA) project.

3) Total Sanitation Campaign funded by the Government of Uttarakhand and the Government of India.

4) Prevention and Awareness project for Female Feticide funded by Plan International Grant Fund.

5) The Child Sponsorship Project, funded by Plan International, has inbuilt provision for holistic health and nutritional aspects of children with education and care.  

g) Worked as a consultant and trainer for a period of four years (2001 – 2004) in a project called ‘HIV AIDS Counselling and Guidance’ funded by the Christian Medical Association of India with Garhwal Community Development & Welfare Society, Chamba, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India. 

h) I was the principal investigator in a research project funded by GB Pant Institute of Himalayan Ecology from 2004 – 2006 on traditional medical practices and public health systems in the Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand. Here, we could divide traditional healing practices into three categories: neutral (neither beneficial nor harmful to health), helpful, and dangerous. We found that traditional healers and vaidyas have an excellent reputation, and villagers believe and follow their advice. We found it useful in motivating people to increase their participation and acceptance of National Health Programs like family planning and immunization.

Publications and Conferences attended in last five years – 

a) Research Articles – 

a) Review of relationships between tourism, SDGs, and public health with the ‘health in all policies (HiAP)’ approach as a solution in the mountains. March 2021, International Journal of Current Medical and Pharmaceutical Research (ISSN: 2395 – 6429), Volume 7, Issue 02(A); Page No. 5519 – 5522, DOI: 10.24327/23956429.ijcmpr202102954 

ii) Training on the spiritual dimension of health in India – an innovative ‘Thought model’ approach. European Journal of Public Health, Volume 30, Issue Supplement 5, September 2020, ckaa 166.1168, DOI https://doi.org/10.1093eurpub/ckaa166.1168 

iii) The ‘Thought Model’ of Spirituality to Solve Conflicts in Training and Education of Spiritual Health in Modern Public Healthcare Systems. International Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, Volume 5, March 2019, issue 1, pp. 29 – 34, DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.20469/ijhms.5.30004-1 

iv) “Spiritual Health – New Paradigms in Our Understanding of Spirituality and Health.” Presented at an international conference held from 13th to 15th March 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Published in International Conference on Spirituality and Psychology 2019 Proceedings, ISBN 978-86-87043-65-7

v) ‘Spiritualism’ As The Religion Of Future Or ‘Spiritual Revolution’ In 21st Century PDF  Mahesh Prasad Bhatt 191-201 (Research Paper published in West East Journal of Social Sciences Vol 8). This research paper was presented at an International Conference at Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University. This conference was held from 29th July to 2nd August 2019.

b) Books – 

i) Spiritual Health - Notion Press, ISBN 978-1-948473-33-0 (2018) 2nd Upgraded Edition (2022), Walnut Publications, ISBN 978-93-5574-341-1

ii) Spirituality: Neurobiology at Our Best, ISBN (International Edition) 9798744294571; ISBN (Indian Edition) 978-93-5473-616-2

iii) The Inquisitive – Ukiyoto Publishing, ISBN 9789354904561 (2022)

iv) The Year 2020: The Corona and Chaos – Ukiyoto Publishing ISBN 9789356451827

c) Important International Conferences in the Last Five Years – 

1) Profile Presentation at Forecasting Healthy Futures Global Health Summit at Baku, Azerbaijan, in Climate Change and Health in the Himalayan Mountains in Uttarakhand, India. June 18 – 20, 2024. 

2) Attended COP28 in Dubai as a member of an international delegation of doctors by WMA from December 8 – 12.

3) Attended an International Conference on Healthy Ageing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in collaboration with WHO Southeast Asia Center for Healthy Ageing from October 24 – 26, 2023, and presented a research paper titled “The Thought Model of Spirituality can Potentiate the Conceptual Synergies of the Spiritual Dimension and Healthy Ageing for better results for Individuals and Public Health Systems in Diverse Communities.”

4) Attended COP27 at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022 as a member of the World Medical Association (WMA) delegation for climate change and its health implications and advocacy for fossil fuel phaseout and loss and damage funding by developed nations for just transition and implication of climate policies in developing and underdeveloped countries.

5) The 24thInternational Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) World Conference, May 15 to 19, 2022, in Montreal, Canada, presented a Research Paper titled “An Online Health Promotion Model using Synergistic Similarities of Spiritual Dimension of Health, Wellbeing, and SDGs in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, India, during Second Wave of COVID19.”

6) 6thInternational Conference on Salutogenesis, June 17-18, 2021, at Gerona Spain, presented a paper titled “Study of Conceptual Similarities and Synergies between Spirituality and Salutogenesis and Importance of Spiritual Dimension of Health in Salutogenic Model of Health Promotion.”

7) Global Health Literacy Summit, October 3 – 5, 2021, Taiwan, presented a research paper titled “Evaluation of the ‘Thought Model of Spirituality’ to Define Spiritual Dimension in Health Literacy in for Public Health Promotion.”

8) 6th International Conference on Spirituality and Psychology, March 13 – 15, 2021, at Bali, presented a paper, “Spiritual Dimension in Health Promotion during COVID-19 Pandemic.”

9) 16th World Congress on Public Health (WCPH), October 12 – 16, 2020, in Rome, Italy, and presented a paper, “Training of the Spiritual Dimension of Health in India – an Innovative ‘Thought Model’ Approach.”

10) East West Conference at Harvard Faculty Club, Harvard University, August 29 to September 02, 2019, presented a paper titled ‘Spirituality in 21st century.’

d) Important National Conferences in 2022 – 23

1) 67thAnnual National Conference of the Indian Public Health Association (IPHA), 7thto 9th April 2023 at Kolkata, India, presented a research paper titled “Evaluation of the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach as a Solution in the Hills of Uttarakhand for Sustainable Tourism, Reaching SDGs, and Solving Climate Change and Health Issues.”

2) Conference on Mental Health Care through Spirituality and Ayurveda, July 9 – 11, 2022, at Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya Shantikunj Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India, delivered a plenary speech on “Science of Spiritual Dimension of Health.”

3) Conference on Science and Technology Communication, Popularization, and its Extension, February 22 – 28, 2022, at Gurukul Kangari (Deemed to be University) Haridwar, Uttarakhand, attended as a special invited guest and speaker.

Trainings –

a) Certificate of completion of “Digital Media for Health Outcomes,” an online course authorized by Yale University, completed in June 2023.

b) Certificate of Participation for completing the requirements of the Southeast Asia Climate and Health Responder Course by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education in July 2023. 

c) The Sustainable Development Goals – A Global, Transdisciplinary Vision for the Future (online) University of Copenhagen, October 2019

d) I completed two weeks of online training on non-communicable diseases (NCD) by WHO in online mode in January 2023.

e) Hospital Management from National Institute of Health and Family Welfare New Delhi in 2006-7 (One Year)

f) Three spells of one week each for health and hospital management and quality control training at Majeedia Hospital New Delhi and IGNOU in 2001.

g) Ten days of training on ‘Public Health and Development’ at the Institute of Training and Research in Community Health and Population, Jamkhed, Maharashtra, India, in September 2002.

h) Training in No-Scalpel Vasectomy under N. S. V. Project of Uttar Pradesh in February 2000.

i) MTP and Tubal Laparoscopic Ligation at Govt. Doon Women Hospital, Dehradun, in April 1997.

Awards and Recognitions in the Last Three Years – 

a) 2023 - Peace Ambassador from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) after completing the IEP Ambassador Program.

b) 2022 – Author of the Year for Non-Fiction (Science) category for the book Spirituality: Neurobiology at Our Best by Ukiyoto Publishers.

c) 2020 – Lifetime Achievement Award in the 11th International Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine held at Kolkata, India, on the 17th and 18th of October, 2020.