Aditya Prasad Dash

Aditya Prasad Dash (born 23 March 1951), who hails from the Indian State of Odisha, is an Indian biologist with special interest in malaria and vector borne diseases. His areas of interest include biomedical science, transmission biology of tropical disease, and modern biology of disease vectors. According to Vidwan, the national network for researchers and experts, Dash has authored 320 publications co-authored 699 publications. Since September 2020, Dash has been serving as the Vice Chancellor of Asian Institute of Public Health (AIPH) in Bhubaneswar. Before joining AIPH, he was the Vice Chancellor of Central University of Tamil Nadu during the period from August 2015 to August 2020. He had also worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Regional Advisor for the South-East Region. He has also worked as the Director of the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), New Delhi, of the Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar and of the National Institute for Research on Tribal Health, Jabalpur. The award is in recognition of his service as a "Distinguished Biologist specializing in vector-borne tropical diseases like dengue, malaria, kala-azar, chikungunya".

Other recognitions

Many awards have been conferred upon Dash for his contributions to the development of public health programmes. These include:

Dr. T.R. Rao award of ICMR (1991) for Young Scientists Oration Award of Indian Society for Communicable Diseases (2002) Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Award (2005) from His Excellency the Governor of Orissa Dr A.P. Ray award for outstanding contributions in malaria research (2012) from Director General Health Services, Govt. of India INBUSH award for outstanding scientific contribution by Amity University Delhi, 2016 Lifetime Achievement award at the Skill and Vocational Education Summit in 2017 Rashtriya Gaurav Award by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi in 2018

Fellowships/Memberships

Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc) Fellow and Life Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, India (F.A.M.S) Fellow and Life Member of the Indian Society for Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases (F.I.S.C.D.) Fellow and Life Member of the Zoological Society of India (F.Z.S.I.) Fellow and Life Member of the Environmental Science Academy (F.N.E.S.A.) Life Member of the Indian Parasitological Society Life Member of the Indian Society of Microbiologists Founder Life member of the National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases