Dr. Prakash Tyagi

Dr. Prakash Tyagi has an MD, PGDGM, and is the Executive Director of GRAVIS and Founder-Director of GRAVIS Hospital. In his academics, he has studied Medicine and Geriatrics. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright-Humphrey Fellowship to study global health, received a Ford Fellowship to study non-profit management at Columbia University in New York and has studied public policy through a Fleishman Fellowship at Duke University. He has supported various non-profits working on health and development aspects nationally and internationally. With his global health experience, he has contributed to various international forums and has written frequently on major global health issues with greater emphasis on healthy ageing and priorities.

As the Executive Director of GRAVIS, he is leading the organization since last 20 years. GRAVIS works extensively in the Thar Desert of India and in other regions, with key focuses on water security, food security and community health. GRAVIS reaches out to about 2.5 million people living in poverty with its work and has helped formation of over 4,500 Community Based Organizations including Older People Associations and Self-Help Groups. Dr Tyagi had founded a rural hospital and currently direct its administration which is an important medical centre in the Thar Desert of India.

Dr Tyagi is an active development practitioner and public health professional and has contributed significantly in the fields of healthy ageing, HIV, TB and occupational health through writing, research and field work. He is also a Clinical Professor at the School of Global Health of University of Washington, US, and a members of various groups such as the CCHA and GNLTC, WHO and is in the board of IFA.