Prof Kalpana Balakrishnan -ASSAf Distinguished Visiting Scholar (DVS) 2024/25

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in partnership with the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) cordially invite you to two lectures

Prof Kalpana Balakrishnan

Professor Balakrishnan is the Dean (Research) and Director at the Sri Ramachandra Institute for Higher Education and Research in India. She acquired her undergraduate education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India and subsequently her doctoral and post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. She is a leading global environmental health researcher and has made seminal contributions for (i) developing novel exposure assessment approaches to characterise household and ambient air pollution exposures of rural and urban populations in low and middle income countries (ii) designing and conducting large scale cohort studies across multiple states in India, to generate primary data on exposure-response relationships for air pollution and health and (iii) building national and regional capacities for occupational and environmental health, through collaborative academic and training initiatives.