Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy is a medical doctor with MD in Community Medicine from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He is currently working as Senior Research Scientist at the Centre for Health Analytics Research and Trends (CHART), Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University and Centre for Chronic Disease Control. He is also a Bernard Lown Scholar in Cardiovascular Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, US. His research interest is in implementation science and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. He has more than 9 years of experience implementing various research projects in rural and urban parts of Visakhapatnam (south India) and Sonipat (north India). Currently, his work looks at proximal as well as distal determinants of non-communicable diseases in general and cardiovascular disease in particular. He has been awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Department of Biotechnology India Alliance Early Career Fellowship to co-design, implement and evaluate patient facing mHealth intervention to promote self-management of hypertension among patients with uncontrolled hypertension.
