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EOH Research Seminar Series: Dr. TK Joshi

3/21/2012 | Noon - 1 pm
Bellet Building, Room 209
  • Event Type: Lecture
  • Department: Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Speakers: Dr. T. K. Joshi
  • Audiences: Current Students , Alumni , General

Occupational Medicine as Practiced at COEH, MAMC

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Dr. T. K. Joshi
BSc, MBBS, MS (Surgery), MSc. Occupational Medicine (London University, DLSHTM, Occupational Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Cer. Occupational and Environmental Medicine (University of California, San Francisco), FFOM (Royal College of Physicians, London) Dr. T.K Joshi specializes in occupational and environmental medicine, an area which has a global shortage of specialists including North America and Europe. He trained in Occupational and Environmental Health at prestigious institutions like TUC Centenary Institute of Occupational Health, London University, and Division of Occupational and Environmental medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He was a visiting research fellow at the London School of Hygiene at T.U.C. Centenary Institute of Occupational Health before his return to India in 1987. As a National Consultant to WHO India, Dr. Joshi had the distinction of setting up country’s first department of occupational and environmental health at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. It is well worth mentioning that none of the 300 odd medical colleges in India have such a department. The department has been involved in teaching, training and research in occupational and environmental health. For his contributions to the field he became the first Indian physician to be elected a fellow by Collegium Ramazzini which only has 180 scholars and scientists at any given time. His courageous stand on making India see the serious health and environmental risks associated with asbestos use and to possibly seek limiting or eliminating the use of this carcinogenic material, got him the prestigious Research Integrity Award instituted by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology which was conferred on him in the Perth meeting of the society. He was given prestigious Irving Selikoff Award for making exemplary contribution to the field of occupational and environmental health in India at World Asbestos Congress held in Tokyo in 2004. Dr. Joshi has been an expert advising World Health Organization, International Agency for Research in Cancer, and International Labour Office, Geneva on the issues relating to occupational and environmental health. He has been in the forefront of promoting the subject of occupational and environmental health in South Asia and has travelled all over the world to lecture and make presentations on the prevailing situation with regard to occupational and environmental health in India. He is chairman of the national committee on Bio Medical Waste Management set up by CPCB and has advised the union ministry of environment and forests on the issues of safety and health in the mining sector. He has published in peer reviewed journals and is on the editorial board of national as well as international journals. His department at MAMC was the first one to start a post graduate certificate course for physicians aspiring to practice industrial health. The department has been very concerned about the lack of understanding of occupational and environmental health issues in India. The poverty and poor health status of Indian to some extent can be attributed to this neglect.

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