In addition to beingan adjunct Professor at Emory, Prof. Mehrotra holds the position of a Director of the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas and Founder of the Centre for Health, Innovation and Policy (CHIP Foundation). Earlier, Dr. Mehrotra directed the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research and the WHO-FCTC Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco Products and was the Founder-CEO of the India Cancer Research Consortium. Additionally, he holds Honorary/visiting Professor appointments at the Brunel, Pretoria and York Universities as well as an Affiliate Investigatorship at the Cancer Prevention Program - HABIT Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle and the Chief Medical Officer at the Open Health Sciences Laboratory.
In addition to his academic career in various medical schools, Dr. Mehrotra has been a leading proponent of affordable cancer care. He led successful programs in a broad range of public health efforts. He has guided the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in conceiving and implementing the Framework for Cancer Control and was instrumental in three states taking up HPV vaccination immunization against cervical cancer, the most recent one being Sikkim.
Over and above his expertise in cancer prevention, epidemiology, pathology, and public health, Prof Mehrotra has a wealth of experience leading large multi-disciplinary teams, overseeing operations, shaping and implementing national-scale strategic plans, fostering key institutional partnerships, and using evidence to influence policy. Has extensive experience collaborating with leaders in government, academia, private and not-for-profit sectors and has facilitated collaborative projects with well-known international institutions such as the US National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Health Research, UK, The Union, and the World Health Organization- Framework Convention for Tobacco Control. He is an impactful researcher with an Impact Factor of 52 more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, including in the NEJM, Lancet, Cancer, BMJ and Nature, numerous books/chapters, and technical reports. He sits on the editorial board of 8 medical journals and has been the Principal Investigator of over ten research grants with significant funding.
His research interests focus on various aspects of health, especially non-communicable diseases, including the early diagnosis and screening of cancer, diabetes, hypertension, tobacco control, especially the smokeless variety, and mentoring of younger scientists and health worker training. He is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the prestigious Dr. P.N.Wahi and Dr. Lachman award in Cancer prevention and the Ernest Fernandes Award and Wahi Oration of the Indian Academy of Cytologists, in addition to being its’ past President.
He is a committed educator who has successfully mentored more than two-dozen graduate and post-graduate trainees in pathology, epidemiology, molecular cancer research, and global health. Dr. Mehrotra holds degrees in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, MD and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Allahabad as well as a Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathology from the United Kingdom.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Rd
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: (530) 481-5136
Email: ravi.mehrotra@emory.edu
Areas of Interest
- Cancer Prevention
- Disease Pathogenesis
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Obesity Prevention
- Public Health Policy
- Tobacco Control and Prevention
Education
- MBBS 1980, University of Poona Armed Forces Medical College
- MD 1983, University of Allahabad Moti Lal Nehru Medical College
- D Phil 2010, University of Allahabad
- FRCPath 2012, Royal College of Pathology
Affiliations & Activities
Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Director, Indian Cancer Genomic Atlas
Founder, Centre for Health, Innovation and Policy Foundation
Associate, Healis Sekhsaria Institute of Public Health https://www.healis.org/
Affiliate, Cancer Foundation of India http://www.cancerfoundationofindia.org
Extraordinary Professor, Pan African Cancer Research Institute. Pretoria, South Africa
Affiliate Investigator, Cancer Prevention Program- HABIT Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Honorary Professor, College of Health, Medical and Life Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
Visiting Professor of Public Health and Society, School of Health Sciences, University of York, UK
CMO and Member of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Open Health Sciences Laboratory (OHSL), USA http://www.ohsl.us/teaming/council-of-advisors-for-science-and-technology-cast/cast-membership
Publications
- Shivashankara MS, Banerjee J, Mehrotra R, Wildes TM. , 2023, Improving the care of hematological malignancies in older Indian Population by integrating geriatric assessment: Where do we stand and challenges ahead?, Jour Ger Oncol , ,
- Arora M, Chugh A, Jain N, Vidyasagaran A, Readshaw A, Sheikh A, Eckhardt J, Siddiqi K, Chopra M, Mishu M, Kanaan M, Rahman MA, Mehrotra R, Huque R, Forberger S, Dahanayake S, Khan Z, Boeckmann M, Dogar O. (2023) , 2023, The global impact of tobacco control policies on smokeless tobacco use: a systematic review. , Lancet Global Health , ,
- Ravi Mehrotra, Kavita Yadav, Kamran Siddiqui, , 2023, Tobacco Dependence in Adolescents: What Lies Ahead?, American j Public Health, ,
- Yadav K, Cree I, Fields A, Vielh P, Mehrotra R , 2022, The importance of cytopathological diagnosis in early cancer diagnosis in resource-constrained countries. , JCO Global Oncol , ,
- Schmitt F, Bubendorf L, Canberk S, Chandra A, Cree I, Chandra A, Engels M, Hiroshima K, Jain D, Kholova I, Layfield L, Mehrotra R, Michael C, Osamura R, Pitman M, Roy-Chowdhuri S, Satoh Y, VanderLann P, Zakowski M, Field A. , 2022, The World Health Organization International System for Reporting Lung Cytopathology. , Acta Cytol , ,
- Pitman MB, Centeno B, Reid M, Siddiqui M, Layfield L, Perez-Machado M, Weynand B, Stelow E, Lazano M, Fukushima N, Field A, Cree I, Mehrotra R, Schmitt F. , 2022, The World Health Organization Reporting System for Pancreaticobiliary Cytopathology. , Acta Cytol , ,
- Shrivastav R, Rawal T, Kataria I, Mehrotra R, Arora M, 2022, Accelerating India's response to curb Non-Communicable Diseases: an imperative to mitigate the dual global public health crises of Non-Communicable Diseases and COVID-19. , Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia , ,
- Mehrotra R, Kapahtia S, Kaur T, Priyanka YK, Dhaliwal RK. , 2022, Alcohol and cancer: Evidence to action, Indian J Med Res , ,
- Mehrotra R, Yadav K. , 2022, Breast cancer in India: the current scenario and the challenges for the future. , World J Clin Oncol , ,
- Global Burden of disease 2019 antimicrobial resistance collaborators, Mehrotra R et al., 2022, Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019., Lancet , ,
- Abdullah SM, Huque R, Siddiqi K, Kanaan M, Huque S, Ullah S, Garg S, Singh MM, Deshmukh C, Borle AL, Iqbal R, Mazhar L, Parascandola M, Mehrotra R, Croucher R, Khan Z., 2022, Non-compliant packaging and illicit smokeless tobacco in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: Findings of a Pack Analysis. , BMJ Tob Cont , ,
- Gupta AK, Siddiqi K, Kanaan M, Sinha DN, Mehrotra R. , 2022, Oral cancer risk assessment for different types of smokeless tobacco products sold worldwide: a review of reviews and meta-analyses. , Cancer Prev Res, ,
- GBD 2019 Cancer Risk Factors Collaborators, Mehrotra R et al., 2022, The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. , Lancet , ,
- Bouvard V, Nethan ST, Singh D, Warnakulasuriya S, Mehrotra R et al, 2022, The IARC perspective on oral cancer prevention., New England Journal Medicine, ,
- Bouvard V, Nethan ST, Singh D, Warnakulasuriya S, Mehrotra R, Chaturvedi AK, Chen TH, Ayo-Yusuf OA, Gupta PC, Kerr AR, Tilakaratne WM, Anantharaman D, Conway DI, Gillenwater A, Johnson NW, Kowalski LP, Leon ME, Mandrik O, Nagao T, Prasad VM, Ramadas K, Roitberg F, Saintigny P, Sankaranarayanan R, Santos-Silva AR, Sinha DN, Vatanasapt P, Zain RB, Lauby-Secretan B. , 2022, The IARC perspective on oral cancer prevention., New Eng J Med, ,
- GBD Group, Kocarnik JM, Mehrotra R et al, 2021, Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived with Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups from 2010 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis of Cancer Burden Globally, Nationally, and by Socio-demographic Index for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. , JAMA Oncology , ,
- Verma G, Aggarwal N, Tyagi A, Vishnoi K, Jadli M, Singh T, Goel, Pandey D, Sharma A, Agarwal A, Sarkar U, Doval DC, Sharma S, Mehrotra R, Singh SM, Bharti AC, 2021, Detection of Human Papillomavirus Infection in Oral Cancers reported at Dental Facility: Assessing the Utility of FFPE tissues. , Medical Oncology , PMID: 34792663,
- Shridhar K, Aggarwal A, Rawal I, Gupta R, Masih S, Mehrotra R, Gillespie TW, Dhillon PK, Michaud DS, Prabhakaran D, Goodman M. , 2021, Feasibility of investigating the association between bacterial pathogens and oral leukoplakia in low and middle income countries: A population-based pilot study in India. PLoS , PLoS 1 , ,
- Bairi KE, Haynes H, Mehrotra R et al, 2021, for International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group. (2021) The tale of TILs in breast cancer: A report from The International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group. , NPJ Breast Cancer , PMID: 34853355,
- India State-level Disease Burden Neurological Diseases Collaboration, Mehrotra R., 2021, The burden of neurological disorders across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2019. , Lancet Global Health, ,
- GBD Group, Mehrotra R et al , 2021, The global burden of adolescent and young adult cancer in 2019: a systematic analysis for the GBD study 2019. , Lancet Oncology, PMID: 34871551,
- Nethan ST, Kumar V, Sharma S, Sinha DN, Hariprasad R, Mehrotra R, Srivastava A , 2021, Tobacco use among urban slum dwellers attending a cancer screening clinic in the National Capital Region of India: a cross-sectional study. 34158834 , eCancermedicalscience , ,
- Marima R, Hull R, Mathabe K, Setlai B, Batra J, Sartor O, Mehrotra R, Dlamini Z. , 2021, Prostate cancer racial, socioeconomic, geographic disparities: targeting the genomic landscape and splicing events in search for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic targets, Am J Cancer Res , ,
- Basu P, Tripathi R, Mehrotra R, Ray K, Srivastava A, Srivastava A. , 2021, Role of Integrative medicine in the continuum of care of breast cancer patients in the Indian context, Cancer Causes Control , ,
- McDonald JA, Rao R, Gibbons M, Janardhanan R, Jaswal S, Mehrotra R et al, 2021, Symposium Report: Breast Cancer in India – Trends, Environmental Exposures and Clinical Implications. , Cancer Causes Control , ,
- Ginsberg O, Yip CH, Brooks A, Cabanes A, Caleffi M, Dunstan Yataco JA, Gyawali B, McCormack V, McLaughlin de Anderson M, Mehrotra R et al, 2020, Breast cancer early detection: a phased approach to implementation. , Cancer, 126, 2379-93
- Hariprasad R, Tulsyan S, Babu R, Dhanasekaran K, Thakur N, Hussain S, Tripathi R, Sreenivas V, Sharma S, Sriram L, Singh S, Mehrotra R , 2020, Evaluation of a Chip-Based, Point-of-Care, Portable, Real-Time Micro PCR Analyzer for the Detection of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus in Uterine Cervix in India., JCO Jour Glob Oncol , ,
- Yadav A , Kumar C, Gupta PC, Sinha DN, Mehrotra R , 2020, Smokeless tobacco control in India: policy review and lessons for high burden countries, BMJ Global Health , PMID: 32665375,
- Murray CJL, Lopez AD, Vos T, Lim SS, GBD Collaborators, Mehrotra R. , 2020, Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, Lancet, ,
- Gupta AK, Nethan ST, Mehrotra R , 2020, Tobacco use as well-recognized cause of severe COVID-19 disease, Resp Med , ,
- Mehrotra R, Kaushik N, Kaushik R, 2020, Why smokeless tobacco control needs to be strengthened?, Cancer Control, 27, 107327482091465 PMID:32208972
- Sankaranarayanan R, Basu P... Mehrotra R , 2019, Current status of human papillomavirus vaccination in India’s cervical cancer prevention efforts, Lancet Oncology, 20, e637-e644
- Mehrotra R, Yadav A, Sinha DN, Parascandola M, John RM, Ayo-Yusuf O, Nargis N, Hatsukami DK, Warnakulasuriya S, Straif K, Siddiqi K, Gupta PC , 2019, Global scenario of smokeless tobacco control: call to action for full implementation of WHO FCTC measures., Lancet Oncology , 20, e208-17
- Naghavi M; ... Mehrotra R & Global Burden of Disease Self-Harm Collaborators, 2019, Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. , BMJ, 364, 194
- GBD Group, Mehrotra R , 2019, Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017: a systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study. , JAMA Oncology, ,
- GBD Group... Mehrotra R, 2019, Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017, Nature , 574, 353-58
- Dhillon P, Mathur P, Nandakumar A, Mehrotra R, Swaminathan S, Dandona L, 2018, India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Cancer Collaborators.The burden of cancers and their variations across the states of India from 1990 to 2016: the Global Burden of Disease Study., Lancet Oncology, ,
- Sivaram S, Majumdar G, Perin D, Ashrafunnessa, Broeders M, Lynge E, Saraiya M, Segnan N, Sankaranarayanan R, Rajaraman P, Trimble E, Taplin S, Rath GK, Mehrotra R, 2018, Population-based cancer screening programmes in low-income and middle- income countries: regional consultation of the International Cancer Screening Network in India. , Lancet Oncology , 19, 113-22.
- Mehrotra R, Hariprasad R, Rajaraman P, Mahajan V, Grover R, Kaur P, Swaminathan S , 2017, Stemming the wave of cervical cancer: HPV vaccine introduction in India. , Jour Global Oncol , ,
- Rajaraman P, Anderson BO, Basu P, Belinson JL, D'Cruz A, Dhillon P, Gupta PC, Jawahar TS, Joshi N, Kailash U, Kapambwe S, Katoch VM, Krishnan S, Panda D, Sankaranarayanan R, Selvam JM, Shah KV, Shastri S, Shridhar K, Siddiqi M, Sudha S, Seth T, Srivastava A, Trimble TM, Mehrotra R, 2015, Recommendations for screening and early detection of common cancers in India. , Lancet Oncology, 16, e352-61