CHANDIGARH,09.04.23-Prof. Sonu Goel from Department of Community Medicine & School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh was awarded prestigious Dr. J.E Park Oration at National Conference of Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) at Kolkata, thus becoming youngest public health fraternity in the country to have been bestowed this oration.

The presentation during oration on ‘Public Health Leadership: Transformation of Dream to reality’ summarised his journey of taking specialisation of management and leadership from local to national and international level. His inspiring talk was a tribute to young and emerging leaders in the discipline, and also provided leadership and management lessons to them to excel higher in career and life.

He had also received visiting scholarships from Johns Hopkins (United States), International Union against TB and Lung Diseases, University Grants commission, Indian Council of Medical Research. He had won ‘Public Health Excellence of India’ award in 2016 and many other awards including best researcher award (twice) by PGIMER, Chandigarh. He is an Aluminus of Maastricht University, The Netherlands and John Hopkins School of Public Health, United States. He is widely travelled and had visited more than 45 countries to disseminate his research findings.