Anant Kumar

Anant Kumar is a Fulbright Scholar and an Associate Professor of Public Health at Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS), Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Before joining XISS, Dr Kumar worked as Program Officer with Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Population Leadership Program in India. He obtained his doctoral degree in Social Medicine and Community Health from Centre of Social Medicine and Community Heath at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Public Health Leadership Programme at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.