Abstract
Poornima Prabhakaran, Head of Environmental Health and Deputy Director of the Public Health Foundation of India's Centre for Environmental Health, grew up in Bangalore and followed in the footsteps of her physician father. After her medical degree at Bangalore Medical College, she moved to New Delhi, where she worked as a Senior Medical Officer, before her “first foray into research” in the Department of Endocrinology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. She began thinking of working in preventive and social medicine, “but I was never convinced”, she recalls, until “I got really interested in epidemiology”. After a job in the epidemiology unit at McMaster University, in Ontario, Canada, she began an MSc in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK in 2004. “That was the point where life took a different trajectory”, she says.
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