Currently, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship. He has been trained in Psychology at the University of Allahabad, and in Social Medicine and Community Health at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His areas of work and research interests are public health, women's health, mental health, HIV/AIDS, population and reproductive health, international health, public health policy and leadership. At GIPH, he will take the courses in Reproductive Child Heath, Gender and Development, and Public Health and Policy.