♦ Chandrakant Lahariya, former staff member of World Health Organisation (WHO), has won the Wiley Research Heroes Prize 2025. He is the first and only Indian so far to win this prize, which received over 2,000 nominations.

♦ Dr Chandrakant is one of India’s leading health policy researchers, an academician, and a medical practitioner. His research impact has been recognised for a long time. As early as the year 2020, the first year when that ranking was released, Dr Lahariya has been recognised as a top 2% researchers across the world in areas of clinical/internal medicine and Paediatrics by Elsevier led analysis, conducted by researchers based at Stanford University in United States.

♦ He has received awards and accolades for his work, including the Government of India/ Indian Council of Medical Research had conferred him with Dr BC Srivastava Foundation Award for ‘Translating community health research into policy practice’ in 2012. He received a certificate of appreciation in 2014 from the then Director General of WHO. He is clearly amongst selected academicians and researchers, whose work is being applied in policy practice and real world.