DR. Dinesh Chandra Jain, Former Deputy Director General, Department of Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India has contributed extensively in the field of public health especially prevention of various communicable and non-communicable diseases. He had worked for 37 years in the field of public health and held different positions at various state and national level, and had been instrumental in planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and coordination with different stakeholders across spectrum globally. He had also contributed 25 years in the field of communicable diseases and held different positions at NCDC (erstwhile NICD) in a multidisciplinary environment. His expertise and skills played a pivotal role in diseases surveillance of malaria, and TB at national level; control and prevention of communicable diseases; situational analysis of the diseases; capacity building etc. He has about 70 research publications in reputed journals both national and international in the field of epidemiology and control of communicable diseases. He has participated in various trainings, workshops and attended several national and international committees meetings.

Dr D Sengupta did his PhD from CDRI, Lucknow in1971 on Chemotherapy of Cancer. He thereafter joined Union Carbide Research centre Bhopal to develop technologies on Carbaryl, Aldicarb and UC 300045 out of which first two were taken up for worldwide promotion. He was responsible for setting up the first residue laboratory in the country. He joined MIT as post-doctoral fellow to work on analogs of 2Keto2deoxyD ribose the binding sugar causing acute poisoning due to Clotredium Perfrigens type of bacteria. The research led to two drugs for the control of infection. Dr Sengupta then joined School of Chemistry Georgia Institute of Technology as Du Pont visiting fellow to teach and do research on carbanion chemistry. He returned to India in 1982 to join CDRI as scientist to head the synthetic antibiotics group where he was responsible for developing and transferring technologies of Amoxycillin, Cephelexin and other similar molecules to industry. Dr Sengupta joined HIL R&D centre at Gurgaon as R&D manager to develop technologies for different pesticides which were transferred to plant. Thereafter he worked for several industries i.e. Dhanuka Researsch Center, JK Industries, EID Parry and Bheelwara group in senior positions to develop pesticide technologies noteworthy amongst them were Butachlo, Monocrotophos, Phosphamidon, Dicofol, Carboxin, Oxycarboxin, Ethion, Phorate, Endosulfan, Quinalphos, Atrazine, Simazine, Palcobutrazole, Maneb, Zineb, Mancozeb etc. Most outstanding contribution was the setting up of Parry Technology Centre and setting up of 1000 mt export oriented facility in Shanghai. In 1996, Dr Sengupta joined Institute of Pesticide Formulation Technology as Director and responsible for setting up the new research centre to develop new generation formulations and to generate their efficacy in the field. The formulations developed were well taken by the industry especially the multinationals. As Director he was also coordinating with six centres in the Asia Pacific Region under the ongoing RENPAP Program and also coordinating the Chemical Weapons Program. After retiring in 1998, Dr Sengupta joined Confederation of Indian Industry as senior advisor to oversee the Life Science Group.

Dr.Gaurav Aggarwal has completed his Masters in Public Health with specialization in Health promotion from one of the premier institution of India. After completion of his postgraduation he has worked in various capacities in Ministry of Health and Family welfare, WHO and UN in various capacities. Throughout his carrier he has developed various models for control of diseases and quality management. He has done his specialization in environment and occupational health as well. During his tenure he piloted the major projects funded by UNICEF and WHO alongwith setting up the Centre for Climate, Environment and Health Studies a state initiative at Health Department Chandigarh Administration. He has also authored three books in the field of public Health and moreover has developed the theory of Neo gerotranscedence which is under consideration. He has undergone basic training for GIS from NIE, Chennai and has put up the use of GIS in health under GeoHealth for control of various diseases especially water, vector and airborne diseases.