Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Khem Bahadur Karki
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health
Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: khemkarki01njph@gmail.com
Managing Editor
Dr. Gambhir Shrestha
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health
Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: gamvir.stha@gmail.com
Editors
Prof. Dr. Archana Amatya
Executive Director
Nick Simon Institute
Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: docarchana2013@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Bimala Sharma
Department of Community Medicine, Gandaki Medical College
Pokhara, Kaski, Nepal
Email: bimalasharma@gmail.com
Shital Bhandary
Associate Professor
Patan Academy of Health Sciences
Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal
Email: shitalbhandary@pahs.edu.np
Dr. Megha Raj Banjara
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
Tribhuvan University
Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: banjaramr@gmail.com
Dr. Pranil Man Singh Pradhan
Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health
Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: pranil@iom.edu.np
Susan Man Shrestha
Assistant Professor
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: sushan.shrestha@gmail.com
Durga Pahari
Assistant Professor
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: dppahari@gmail.com
Sujata Shakya
Assistant Professor
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: sujatash.njph@gmail.com
Arjun Aryal
Assistant Professor
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: drarjunaryal@gmail.com
Rajan Paudel
Assistant Professor
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: paudel.rajan@iom.edu.np
International Editors
Prof. Dr. Padam Simkhada
Associate Dean (International), School of Human and Health Sciences
Professor of Global Health, Department of Allied Health Professions, Sports and Exercise
University of Huddersfield
United Kingdom
Email: p.p.simkhada@hud.ac.uk
Dr. Eiko Saito
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Frontiers Sciences
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Email: esaito@edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Advisors
Prof. Dr. Dibya Singh Shah
Dean, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Prof. Dr. Amod Kumar Poudyal
Central Department of Public Health, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Dipendra Raman Singh
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal
Ramshahpath, Kathmandu, Nepal



